Vollmer v. Stoneleigh-Maple Terrace, Inc.

YOUNG, Justice.

Appellant sought recovery in damages to his automobile which disappeared from defendant’s garage (operated in connection with its apartment hotel), and later found in a wrecked condition. Negligence was alleged on part of defendant and its employees in permitting the car to be thus stolen, with counter charges against plaintiff of contributory negligence. The jury found plaintiff, along with defendant, guilty of negligence in various respects, proximately causing the loss’; whereupon the court overruled plaintiff’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the jury findings of…