Paine v. Livingston

How courts have described this case

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• “[I]t is a generally recognized feature of bailments that possession of the thing bailed is severed from ownership; the bailor retains the general ownership, while the bailee has the lawful possession or custody for the specific purpose of the bailment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).