Case ID: ny-st-rep_61/html/0089-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Buttman, Resp’t, v. Alfred W. Dennett, App’lt.
    
      (New York Common Pleas, General Term,
    
    
      Filed August 1, 1894.)
    
    Bailment—Restaurant keeper.
    A restaurant keeper, in whose custody wraps and other articles of wearing apparel have been temporarily placed for safe keeping, is liable as a bailee.
    Appeal from a judgment of the district court in the city of Hew York for the first judicial district.
    
      W. S. Burt, for app’lt; L. S. Wheeler, for resp’t.
   Per Curiam.

We think that a restaurant keeper in whose custody wraps and other articles of wearing apparel have been temporarily placed for safe keeping, is liable as a bailee under the rule laid down in Bunnell v. Stern, 122 N.Y. 539; 34 St. Rep. 218, and Bird v. Everard, 53 St. Rep. 210; and that the judgment must therefore be affirmed, with costs.