Rhodes v. Pioneer Parking Lot, Inc.

OPINION

W. M. LEECH, Special Justice.

Pioneer Parking Lot, Inc. has appealed from a judgment entered in the Circuit Court of Hamilton County awarding Bobby Joe Rhodes $2,263.00 as damages for the theft of his automobile from a parking lot operated by appellant. Appeal was made direct to this Court pursuant to § 16-408 T.C.A., because the case was finally determined in the lower court by a “method not involving review or determination of the facts.”

Appellant operates a parking lot located on Chestnut Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee of the type commonly known as a “self-service Park & lock”…