Legal Opinion
Boiseau v. Morrissette
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 12, 1951No. 1016PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLAGETT, Associate Judge.
Originally begun as a suit for breach of contract of bailment, this action concluded as a claim for damages for the detention of a barrel of Haviland china. Plaintiff stored the china, together with other household goods, with defendant storage company in Washington. He left the goods there for approximately two years and after moving west ordered the entire shipment delivered early in 1948 to the Universal Carloading and Distributing Company for transfer to California. All the other articles were shipped but the barrel of china was reported missing. In December 1948,…
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