Summary
In Buttman v. Dennett, 9 Misc. Rep. 462, it was held that a restaurant keeper in whose custody wraps and other articles of wearing apparel have been temporarily placed for safekeeping is liable as a bailee.
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August, 1894.
W.S. Burt, for appellant.
L.S. Wheeler, for respondent.
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, and Bird v. Everard, 4 Misc. 104; 53 N.Y. St. Repr. 210, and that the judgment must, therefore, be affirmed, with costs.
Present: BOOKSTAVER and BISCHOFF, JJ.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.