BAILEE - Contracts. One to whom
goods are bailed.
His duties are to act in good faith he is bound to
use extraordinary diligence in those contracts or
bailments, where he alone receives the benefit, as
in loans; he must observe ordinary diligence of those
bailments, which are beneficial to both parties, as
hiring; and he will be responsible for gross negligence
in those bailments which are only for the benefit
of the bailor, is deposit and mandate. He is bound
to return the property as soon as the purpose for
which it was bailed shall have been accomplished.
He has generally a right to retain and use the thing
bailed, according to the contract, until the object
of the bailment shall have been accomplished.
A bailee with a mere naked authority, having a right
to remuneration for his trouble, but coupled with
no other interest, may support trespass for any injury,
amounting to a trespass, done while he was in the
actual possession of the thing.
