43-40-2.
Special arrangement between innkeeper or hotel keeper and guest for safe deposit
of property.
Any such innkeeper or hotel keeper may by special arrangement with a guest receive for
deposit in such safe or vault any property upon such terms as they may agree to in writing, but every
innkeeper or hotel keeper shall be liable for any loss of the above enumerated articles of a guest in
his inn or hotel after said articles have been accepted for deposit if caused by the theft or negligence
of the innkeeper, hotel keeper, or any of his servants.
Source: SL 1913, ch 237, § 2; RC 1919, § 999; SDC 1939, § 60.0702.