Morgan Millwork Co. v. Dover Garage Co.
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the case by the Morgan Millwork Company against the Dover Garage Company to recover damages for injuries to an automobile, which plaintiff’s agent had stored in the garage of the defendant company for safe-keeping. Verdict for plaintiff.
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Action on the case by the Morgan Millwork Company against the Dover Garage Company to recover damages for injuries to an automobile, which plaintiff’s agent had stored in the garage of the defendant company for safe-keeping. Verdict for plaintiff. The plaintiff introduced evidence to show that on the evening of September twenty-third, 1915, at about eleven o’clock, W., its traveling salesman drove its automobile, furnished W. for use in its business, into the garage of the defendant company for safe-keeping over night, as he had done several times before, for which he paid fifty cents per…
1Opinion of the Court
Boyce, J.,
charging the jury:—This is an action brought by the plaintiff company against the defendant company to recover damages for injuries to an automobile of the plaintiff company, alleged to have resulted from the negligence of the defendant company with which the automobile in question had been left in its garage for safe-keeping.
[1] This action is based upon an alleged contract of bailment, such as arises where one delivers property to another to keep safely for hire, either express or implied. When such a contract is created, and the property is delivered to the bailee, the latter is…
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