Cornblatt v. Rubenstein

This is an action of contract or tort to recover damages for loss of the plaintiff’s automobile found by the trial .'judge to have been stolen from the defendant’s garage. The principal question which the plaintiff seeks to raise by tins appeal is whether the defendant, bailee for hire of the plaintiff’s automobile, has been successful in limiting liability for the loss by theft of the car while in his possession.

It L>as never been held, by this Division that a bailee for hire may, by contract, relieve himself of all liability for the chattel bailed.

In the Bestatement of the Law of Contracts…