For safekeeping, Kula deposited $18,300 with the cashier of a Nevada hotel casino and was given a

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For safekeeping, Kula deposited $18,300 with the cashier of a Nevada hotel casino and was given a receipt for the money. Kula and a friend, Goldfinger, gambled in the hotel’s casino. (Casino gambling is legal in Nevada.) Kula made withdrawals and deposits from time to time with the casino cashier and at the time had a balance of $18,000. One evening Goldfinger lost $500 in gambling and was unable to pay it. He asked the shift boss, Ponto, to telephone Kula for a guarantee of the loss. Ponto did so and received Kula’s authorization to give Goldfinger credit up to $1,000 but no more. Ponto confirmed this but stated that Kula had also said Goldfinger could gamble the entire deposit of $18,000. Goldfinger was permitted to gamble until he lost $18,000. The casino tried to collect the amount from Kula on his alleged oral promise to cover Goldfinger’s debt to $18,000. The casino did this by refusing to return to Kula the amount he had on deposit. Kula was willing to honor his oral guarantee of Goldfinger’s debt up to $1,000 but no more. Kula sued the hotel for return of his deposit. Should he get it? (Kula v. Karat, Inc., 531 P.2d 1353)

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