Colorado § 6-25-111 - Liability for baggage left by guest.
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§ 6-25-111. Liability for baggage left by guest.
If an individual who has been the guest or patron of a hotel or public establishment ceases to be a guest or patron and leaves with the landlord or keeper of the hotel or public establishment any baggage or other personal property for safekeeping, and the landlord or keeper accepts and receives the same for safekeeping and makes no charge for services or storage in keeping the property, then the landlord or keeper is liable only as a gratuitous bailee and, as such, is liable for no sum greater than fifty dollars.
Source: L. 2017: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 17-1245), ch. 240, p. 988, § 1, effective August 9. L. 2026: Entire section amended, (HB 26-1426), ch. 334, p. 2020, § 82, effective August 12.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-44-110 as it existed prior to 2017.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. Since § 6-25-111 is similar to former § 12-44-110 and laws antecedent to that section, relevant cases construing those provisions have been included in the annotations to this section.
This section applies to baggage left for safekeeping only, not to that in pledge. Dutton Hotel Co. v. Fitzpatrick, 69 Colo. 229, 193 P. 549 (1920).
Where a guest, having paid her bill at defendant's hotel, was told by the clerk that her baggage would be sent to her residence as she had requested, and the baggage was then brought by a servant to the baggage room, and while the servant was looking for an expressman it was stolen, it was held that the case was not within this section and that defendant was liable for the full value. New Albany Hotel Co. v. Dingman, 66 Colo. 306, 181 P. 126 (1919).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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