Keel v. Kilgore Transfer & Storage Co.

HALL, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by appellants against ap-pellee for damages to household goods resulting from a fire. The household goods were stored under a written contract for hire with appellee. Trial was to a jury which resulted in a verdict favorable to appellee and judgment was accordingly entered for it.

Appellants’ first point asserts that “ap-pellee being the bailee is liable for the loss of goods where it agrees to store same in a specific place and stores them elsewhere without the bailor’s consent irrespective of negligence.”

The warehouseman’s receipt or contract issued to…