Windeler v. Scheers Jewelers

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• affirming emotional- 23 distress damages for the negligent loss of “old family rings” that were “cherished 24 mementos of [plaintiff’s] husband” because the parties had a contractual “bailment” 25 relationship
• bailment for heirloom jewelry where bailee knew of jewelry’s sentimental value
• “A bailment is generally defined as ‘the delivery of a thing to another for some special object or purpose on a contract, express or im plied, to conform to the objects or purposes of the delivery which may be as various as the transactions of men.’ ’’
• loss of jewelry with great sentimental value
• negligent breach of the bailment contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).