H. S. Strygler & Co. v. Hill Estates, Inc.

While there have been holdings that an attendant in charge of a garage or parking lot may have authority to contract for the bailment of the contents of a car to the extent of a zipper traveling bag and contents of a value of $159 (Mulhern v. Public Auto Parks, 296 Ill. App. 238), or of a value of $350 (Parkrite Auto Park v. Badgett, 242 S. W. 2d 630 [Ky.]), or of a suitcase and contents valued at $600 (Homan v. Burkhart, 108 Cal. App. 363), it is wholly inconsistent with the position of a night attendant in a garage to infer that he had authority to accept property of a value of almost…