Section 62-7-104 - Restriction on liability for losses from safe

The liability of the hotel or inn keeper for the safekeeping in the safe or other convenient place as provided in § 62-7-103 shall be limited to an amount not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300), unless a written contract is entered into providing a greater liability between the guest and the proprietor of the hotel or inn. The notice required to be posted by the proprietor of the hotel or inn in a conspicuous manner in the rooms occupied by the guests shall contain a recitation of the limitation of liability as provided in this section and the provision of greater liability being dependent upon a written contract between the proprietor and the guest.Acts 1935 (E. S.), ch. 8, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 6680; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 62-704.