Hubbard v. Olsen-Roe Transfer Co.

The complaint in this case is based upon defendant’s liability as a warehouseman, for hire, of plaintiffs’ household goods.

The “Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act” provides, among other things:

“A warehouseman shall be liable for any loss or injury to the goods caused by his failure to exercise such care in regard to them as a reasonably careful owner of similar goods would exercise, but he shall not be liable, in the absence of an agree-' ment to the contrary, for any loss or injury to the goods which could not have been avoided by the exercise of such care.” Or. L., § 8028.

Again:

“A warehouseman…