Donlan v. Clark
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Washoe county; A. E. Cheney, District Judge: Action by J. H. Donlan against A. J. Clark. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. In March, 1894, the plaintiff left with the defendant, a hotel keeper at Reno, Nevada, a trunk full of masquerade costumes and masks, in pledge for the payment of a board bill of $17, upon the agreement that, when the money was paid, they were to be sent to him, as he might direct.
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Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Washoe county; A. E. Cheney, District Judge: Action by J. H. Donlan against A. J. Clark. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. In March, 1894, the plaintiff left with the defendant, a hotel keeper at Reno, Nevada, a trunk full of masquerade costumes and masks, in pledge for the payment of a board bill of $17, upon the agreement that, when the money was paid, they were to be sent to him, as he might direct. The money was paid in January, 1895, and in the following October the trunk was sent to the plaintiff at San Francisco,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Bigelow, C. J.
(after stating the facts):
When a bailee, either for hire or gratuitous, is entrusted with the care and custody of goods, it is his duty to return them at the end of the bailment or account for their loss, and show that it happened without legal negligence upon his part. If he fails to do either, the presumption is that they have been converted by him or lost through his negligence, and he is responsible for them. (Beardslee v. Richardson, 11 Wend. 25; Logan v. Mathews, 6 Pa. St. 417; Wiser v. Chesley, 53 Mo. 547; Cumins v. Wood, 44 Ill. 416; Murray v. Clarke, 2…
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