Loeb v. Whitton

This was an action for damages for the loss of the plaintiff’s automobile, stolen from a parking lot owned and operated for profit by the defendant.

The undisputed material facts briefly stated show: that the plaintiff was a customer or patron of the defendant; that he parked his car on the lot owned and operated by the defendant by delivering it with its keys to the attendant and employee of the defendant about 8 o’clock in the morning, receiving from the attendant a parking ticket or check bearing the name and telephone number of the parking lot, the figures “15c” and these words: “Lock your…