Ryberg v. Snell

WASHINGTON, Circuit Justice.

The stress of the argument by the plaintiff’s counsel, on this motion, is. that a bill of lading conveys to the consignee a legal title to the property; that a factor, being such consignee, and a creditor of the consignor, for the ‘balance of a former account, has equal equity with a person who, bona fide, and for valuable consideration, becomes a purchaser of the property from the consignor, even before possession is acquired by the factor, and is therefore entitled to hold it until his debt is satisfied.

The whole error of this argument, consists in thé generality…