Picard v. Clifford

Sherman, PJ.

In this action of tort, the plaintiff seeks to recover for damage to his property which occurred when an unknown person, who had stolen the defendant’s automobile, negligently operated the same causing damage to said property.

Theplaintiff maintains thatthedefendantwasnegligentasaresultofher having left the keys to her motor vehicle on a barroom counter at premises which she owned at 8:00 p.m. on the date of the occurrence. The defendant first learned that the keys to her motor vehicle had been misappropriated when she was informed by the police at 1:00 a.m. that her motor vehicle,…