Bohmont v. Moore

This is a law action wherein plaintiff charges defendants with negligence, alleging that he placed the sum of $14,000 in a safe deposit box which he rented from defendant bank, and when he later called for the box to take therefrom the money it was missing; that the defendants refused to pay or return such amount to him on his demand, denying negligence on their part. The jury, by a 10 to 2 verdict, found for the plaintiff. Defendants appeal.

The defendant bank maintains some 125 safe deposit boxes of the kind generally used in banks of the same, or larger, size, for the purpose of renting…