Exam 9: Rights of Innkeepers

Which of the following items, if brought to a hotel by a guest, is not subject to the innkeeper's lien?

A hotel can treat a holdover guest as a trespasser.

A group of diners stole the wine glasses that had been used at their table from a restaurant. What crime have they committed?

Before using force to evict a person from a hotel, the innkeeper should ____________________________________________________________________.

Daisy arrived at a hotel at 3:00 am. She rang the bell on the registration desk to alert the sleeping attendant of her presence. Which of the following is true?

A guest who has been wrongfully evicted from a hotel may be entitled to damages to compensate for what type of injuries?

A hotel can refuse to allow a local pizza delivery service to enter the hotel for purposes of delivering pizza to guests.

A hotel can adopt rules to prevent misconduct and require that guests abide by them.

Jan arrived at a waterfront hotel where she had reservations. When the bellhop showed her the room, she expressed disappointment because the room did not have a view of the lake, and she demanded to be reassigned to a room with a better view. True or false: The innkeeper is required to reassign Jan to another room.

Three categories of people to whom a hotel can refuse to provide a room are ________________________________________, ________________________________________, ________________________________________.

Under which of the following circumstances can an innkeeper not enter a guest's room?

Jeremy went to Chicago on business and had reserved a hotel room for two nights. Business demands required that he stay in town an extra two days. The hotel has two options concerning his room. They are ____________________________________________________________, ____________________________________________________________.

Steve rented a room at a hotel for a week. During the week he had to go back home for some family emergency, and therefore had to leave the hotel earlier than planned. He invited a friend to use the room for the duration of the week and the friend did so. A few days later the innkeeper discovered that George was no longer occupying the room and evicted his friend. Did the hotel have the legal right to evict the friend?

If an innkeeper wrongly determines that a guest stole towels from a room and so detains the person, the guest may also be able to sue the hotel for _________________________.

A diner paid for dinner with a check. Two days earlier the diner had closed the account on which the check was drawn. The diner is guilty of the crime of ______________________________.

What is true about an innkeeper's right to refuse to provide accommodations to a would-be guest because the person is wearing jeans, as compared to a restaurateur's right to refuse service to a patron so attired?

In all eviction situations, force should be used only as a last resort.

An innkeeper seized the property of a nonpaying guest pursuant to the innkeeper's lien. The property was stored temporarily in the baggage room. The guest sneaked into the baggage room and removed some of her property. True or false: The guest is guilty of theft of her own property.

Jenny was asked by hotel security to leave the hotel because she was intoxicated and was bothering guests. She agreed to leave and started walking toward the door. The security guard then grabbed her around the waist and dragged her out the door, causing her injury. True or false: The hotel will be liable to Jenny for her injuries.

The amount of force a hotel can use to evict a trespasser is ____________________________________________________________________.