Peet v. Roth Hotel Company- (Supreme Court of Minnesota, 1934)

Famed pod-racing super star, Sebulba, was preparing for the Boonta Eve Classic and noted that his powerbinders were not functioning correctly. He took his pod's specialty powerbinder to Watto's shop for a quick bit of maintenance, but when he arrived, Watto was not available (he was out rolling chance cubes). One of the service droids running the shop gave Sebulba a box, in which he placed the powerbinder and gave the box to the droid. The droid then wrote Sebulba's name on it and placed it to the side.

A few weeks later, Sebulba inquired about the status of the repair, to which Watto replied stating that he had never received the part. Watto then investigated his staff to see if any of the droids had made off with the part, or perhaps a certain human slave named Skywalker, but these efforts to find the powerbinder failed. The droid who accepted the part did not know what had happened to it.

Sebulba sued for damages, stating that Watto's shop had failed to return the bailment of the powerbinder. The shop claimed that the droid was not made aware of the value of the specialty powerbinder since Sebulba had placed it in a box, and as such could not be held responsible for such high damages. The Tatooine court disagreed, stating that Sebulba had not misrepresented or hidden the nature of the powerbinder by placing it in the box, and that the shop would be held to a reasonable standard of care in its keeping. By not returning the powerbinder, they had breached this standard of care, as well as failed in acting as a bailee.