Court Opinion

ID: 9548821
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:09:17.581422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:19:27.515149
License: Public Domain

HENRIOD, Justice
(concurring in result).
Plaintiff, sole witness, said that some time before the fire, defendant, without authority, took his plane from a hangar he had leased, insisting there was a conversion. If that were so, a cause of action would have arisen at that time. The jury rejected the conversion idea, but concluded there was a compensated bailment. Its verdict was justified, not on any original arrangement or negotiations, but because of the fact that plaintiff, knowing of the removal, permitted defendant, for a consideration, to store it in the large, unleased hangar. So doing, it would appear that there was an assent to a bailor-bailee relationship in lieu of what plaintiff previously had considered to be a landlord-tenant relationship.