Medlock v. Admiral Safe Co., Inc.

KENNETH L. BUETTNER, Chief Judge.

Part I

¶ 1 On November 5, 1999, about 8 p.m., Defendant Rex Herd, proprietor of Defendant Admiral Safe Company, answered a telephone request to open a safe at Sanders Realty. Herd1 called back twice to verify the request and to get directions. A young man greeted him and said his father needed some papers from the safe which had been working earlier that day, but no longer was. Herd opened the safe. The young man paid him with a company check. Later, Herd saw a Crimestoppers article about a theft from a safe at that address. He went directly to the police and…