Julius Garfinckel & Co. v. Firemen's Insurance Co. of Washington, D. C.

REILLY, Associate Judge:

The procedure adopted by clothing stores for limiting their liability for losses incurred by customers utilizing their storage services has been challenged by a judgment for damages rendered against Julius Garfinckel & Company (referred to herein as Garfinckel’s) and Washington Deliveries, Inc. This case is here on appeal by Garfinckel’s.

This action arose from a failure of Gar-finckel’s to redeliver to a customer two of three fur pieces she had placed in storage there some six months before. The customer, a Mrs. Earl M. Ryan, who had previously insured her fur coats…