National Liberty Insurance Co. of America v. Sturtevant-Jones Co.

The sole question presented here is whether a bailee for hire may be made to respond in damages to his bailor for a breach of his contract of bailment to redeliver the subject of the' bailment to the bailor, where the subject of bailment has been destroyed and redelivery has been rendered impossible by an act of tbe bailee’s servant, done by such servant solely for his own purpose and pleasure, without the knowledge of the bailee, and in violation of his orders, but while the subject of bailment, by the express order of the bailee, was in the exclusive possession of such servant for the…