Montgomery v. Ladjing’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The rule to be deduced from all these cases, therefore, is: That, before a restaurant keeper will be held liable for the loss of an overcoat of a customer while such customer takes a meal or refreshments, it must appear either that the overcoat was placed in the physical custody of the keeper of the restaurant or his servants, in which case there is actual bail ment, or that the overcoat was necessarily laid aside under circumstances showing at least notice of the fact and of such necessity to the keeper of the restaurant or his servants, in which case there is an implied bailment or constructive custody, or that the loss occurred by reason of the insufficiency of the general supervision exercised by the keeper of the restaurant for the protection of the property of customers temporarily laid aside.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 27 Wis. 2d 446 - Kuchinsky v. Empire Lounge, Inc.