Cengage Advantage Books: Law for Business 19th Edition by John Ashcroft,Katherine Ashcroft,Martha Patterson

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Charlie operated a restaurant and pub, offering the customary variety of fried, greasy foods. From time to time, Charlie (or his employee) took the accumulated dirty bar rags down the street to Egypt Laundromat to wash and dry them. On one occasion, an employee washed the rags, started them in the dryer, and then left the Laundromat. Some minutes later, the rags began to smolder and eventually burst into flames, causing damage not only to the rags, but to the dryer and the Laundromat. Egypt Laundromat argued the relationship was a bailment for mutual benefit, and as a result, the restaurant, as bailee, owed a duty of ordinary care to Egypt Laundromat, as bailor, to ensure its laundry did not spontaneously combust in the dryer. Was Charlie liable for the cost of the fire?