Giles v. Meyers

OPINION

By THOMAS, J.

This is an action in which plaintiff sues to recover the value of suitcases and contents claimed to have been stolen from the floor of the back seat of plaintiff’s locked car while it was parked in defendant’s parking lot.

The defendant operates a large, open, unfenced parking lot at East Ninth Street and Lakeside Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, within easy walking distance of the Municipal Stadium.

On Sunday, July 3, 1949, the plaintiff drove his car into the parking lot. As plaintiff entered he paid a 35-cent parking fee and was given a numbered parking ticket. The nature or…