Treesh

This is an appeal by the defendant from a money judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The appellant conducted a hotel and the respondent occupied a housekeeping apartment in the place under an agreement to pay in advance a monthly rental of $30. As a part of the agreement under which the apartment was let it was understood that respondent might leave at the desk of the clerk of the hotel such apparel as she desired to have laundered from time to time and that, after it was laundered, it should be returned to her there. On one occasion she left at the desk a parcel for the laundry and it was lost through the fault of the hotel management. This loss occurred in June and, respondent having asserted a claim against appellant for the value of the missing parcel, the matter was left in abeyance, at the request of appellant, pending an attempt to locate it, respondent not paying her rent in the meanwhile. On August 21st appellant notified respondent that the parcel could not be found and on the next day she wrote appellant a note inclosing a list of the articles which had been lost, with an itemized statement of values amounting to $30.25. She also stated her total indebtedness to the…