Voyt v. Bekins Moving & Storage Co.

(specially concurring). The jury returned a verdict in which it found that the defendant was negligent in failing to provide a reasonably safe place in which to store the trunk of silver left with it by the plaintiff, and that the value of the silver was $4,184.50. Those two matters were settled by the verdict and are not in question on this rehearing. The principal controversy now before us is whether the court can say as a matter of law that the warehouse receipt sent by the defendant to the plaintiff and received by her became the contract between the parties or whether that was a fact for…