A depository is liable for any damage happening to the thing deposited during his wrongful use thereof, unless such damage must inevitably have happened, though the property has not been thus used.

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Source: CivC 1877, § 1048; CL 1887, § 3672; RCivC 1903, § 1367; RC 1919, § 984; SDC 1939, § 60.0102 (10).