I care who's right and who's wrong. If it doesn't matter who's right anymore, please mail me your checkbook and credit cards along with your birth certificate and let's have some fun.

The bottom line is Russ lost all recourse when he used the case to ship someone else's guns. By giving up custody of the case to an unauthorized third party, and by deriving use from the case, he left himself wide open.

How would Russ feel if instead of delivering his new Corvette to him, his dealer told him, "Oh, I let some other guy drive it around for a week. Sit tight and he'll drop it off at your house
when he's done with it."?

How would Russ feel if he came out of the bathroom in the Honeymoon Suite of the Flamingo on his wedding night and learned his new bride had been reassigned to another room 'cause other old boy was coming down with erectile dysfunction - but there was a note that said she'd be back in the morning?

This is Grade School 101 stuff.