Cengage Advantage Books: Law for Business 18th Edition by John Ashcroft ,Janet Ashcroft

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Jewelry salesmen Robert Weinberg and Jeffrey Reisman went to Puerto Rico with bags of jewelry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. They asked the vice president of a jewelry store, Natalio Barquet, whether they could leave the bags at the store overnight. Barquet responded, "Fine." Weinberg carried the bags through the store to a back room and put the bags in the vault there. The next morning, the bags were missing. The store was protected with an alarm system and gates when closed and the vault was time-locked. However, when the store was open, Barquet knew the vault was always open and unlocked. The back room was accessible from the rest of the store, so, in the ordinary course of business, customers could be left there by themselves, with no employee. There were security cameras and video monitors that employees could watch, but there was no videotaped record. The jewelry's owners sued Barquet. In this jurisdiction, the bailee had to exercise reasonable care. Did Barquet exercise such care? [Jewelers Mut. Ins. Co. v. N. Barquet Inc., 410 F.3d 2 (1st Cir.)]