STATE: Ohio
I left the wallet in the car he case he needed something. Granted hindsight is 20/20 and I should have just left him with the money and not the entire wallet. He left my car doors unlocked. He left my doors unlocked. The person whose house the car was parked asked him if he left the doors unlocked and he said yes because the battery was dead to which I responded "why didn't you manually lock the doors?"
I must disagree with the conclusion the of others that the ex boyfriend is immune from civil liability. At least to the extent of the wallet itself as the laws of bailment seem perfectly applicable.
Inasmuch as the wallet was entrusted to him for his exclusive benefit he owed you the duty to exercise extraordinary in safeguarding it.
His admission that he left it in an unlocked car is a clear indication that he neglected to so.
More information needs to be forthcoming in determining his liability for the other missing items for which he may or may not have owed the duty to exercise ordinary care in their safeguarding.
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But let's suppose that your borrowed vehicle was stolen?
Is there any doubt that he could be held liable under the same theory of bailment? Leaving a borrowed car on the street unlocked?
I don't think so! And I fail to see any distinction between the hypothetical theft of the vehicle and the missing wallet - each entrusted to him for his personal benefit.
Nor is it out of the realm of possibility that there was no money in the wallet at the time he "claims" it was stolen.
And what about credit cards?