Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad v. Heard Bros.

1. A bailee for hire has such title and right of possession as will authorize it to maintain a suit in trover. Civil Code, (1910), §§ 3468, 4482; McWhorter v. Moore, 7 Ga. App. 439 (67 S. E. 115).

2. While it is a conversion of personal property for one in possession, without' title, to sell the property and receive the proceeds (Branch v. Planters Loan & Savings Bank, 75 Ga. 342), although the one in possession was an innocent purchaser from one with no authority to sell from the true owner, yet where the true owner lost possession of the property through the negligent and fraudulent acts of…