Week 5 Business Law Discussion

One winter evening, you meet a friend for dinner at Moxy, a restaurant in a downtown hotel. You arrive at the Moxy, and before checking in with the host, you check your coat with the restaurant employee in the coat check room. The employee provides you with a small, pre-printed card containing the number 23.  There is nothing else written on the card. You put it in your purse and head off to enjoy dinner with a friend. After dinner, you stop by the coat check room and provide the attendant with your pre-printed number 23 card. The attendant, who is not the same person on duty when you entered the restaurant and left your coat, searches the room. He is unable to find the coat. Despite a further and thorough search by a number of restaurant employees, the coat is missing. The coat was designed wool coat that cost you $495.00. But, inside the coat pocket was an expensive watch, worth $2000.00. You had placed the watch in the coat pocket on the way to the restaurant when you realized it was not keeping time and the battery was probably dead.If you file a claim against the restaurant, what legal principles would apply? Would you be able to successfully recover? If yes, how much would the restaurant be liable to pay? After posting, respond to two classmates. In each response, agree or disagree with the conclusions offered and explain your support for that agreement or disagreement. Provide sources where appropriate.Before posting, please review the  LAW2005 Discussion Rubric (.docx)All initial posts should be posted by 4/13 at 11:59 pm ET. Respond to at least two of your classmates by 4/16 at 11:59 pm ET.Textbook Readings: Washington State Hospitality Law ManualPart I, Chapter 6Part I, Chapter 7of bailment.