Roberts v. Stuyvesant Safe Deposit Co.

The defendants are a corporation created by chapter 111 of the Laws of 1877. By section 2 of the act the defendant was authorized to receive on deposit, as bailee, for safe keeping and storage, jewelry, plate and other articles of personal property, specially described, for such compensation as might be agreed upon, and also to let out vaults and safes and other receptacles for the uses and purposes of the corporation.

On the 20th of July, 1873, the plaintiff hired, for the period of one year, one of the defendant’s safes. A key to the safe was given to her, and only she, or her husband, as…