New York Supreme Court August 18, 1927 (Hobbie v. Ryan)

Goldsmith, J.

The defendant was the owner and proprietor of a public- garage and, shortly after midnight on the 8th day of September, 1926, received the plaintiff’s automobile for storage upon promise of compensation. When the plaintiff called for the automobile about ten o’clock in the morning of the same day he found that it had been damaged by fire.