PENNINGTON v. STYRON

No. 112.

153 S.E.2d 776 (1967)

270 N.C. 80

C. A. PENNINGTON v. Warren L. STYRON, t/a Morehead City Yacht Basin.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 12, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. McNeill, Morehead City, for plaintiff appellee.

Wheatly & Bennett, Beaufort, for defendant appellant.


PLESS, Justice.

The plaintiff and the defendant agree that the plaintiff stored his boat with the defendant, and that the defendant was to keep it tied up, pump the rain water out of it, and generally to protect it during the winter. This arrangement created the relation of bailor and bailee between plaintiff and defendant. Nothing else appearing, the contract did not constitute defendant an insurer of the safety of plaintiff's boat. The relationship merely...

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