Question: Timothy Augustine attended a seminar at a Marriott hotel. The seminar sponsor, who had rented the meeting room, requested a movable coat rack, which Marriott put outside the room. Augustine hung his coat on the rack and at the noon break found the coat rack had been moved around a corner. His cashmere coat was missing. Augustine sued Marriott as a hotelkeeper for the loss of the coat. Is Marriott liable as a hotelkeeper?