First Nat. Bank of Chicago v. Rogers, Brown & Co.
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Equity. Suit by the First National Bank of Chicago against Rogers, Brown & Co., a corporation, in which a receiver was appointed. In the matter of the claim of the receiver against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. Demurrer to answer of Railway Company sustained.
1Opinion of the Court
NETERER, District Judge.
Claim is made by the receiver of Rogers, Brown & Co. against Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company for $9,251.75 damages claimed for wrongful conversion of a car of soya bean oil, K. T. X. No. 561. The oil was purchased by Rogers, Brown & Co. of the Koster Company, who had shipped the oil to its own order to Winnipeg over the named railway, with instructions to notify “Royal Crown Soap, Limited,” under an “order hill of lading.” Rogers, Brown & Co. purchased the oil, and the hill of lading was indorsed to it, and in due course came into the possession of the…
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- Pere Marquette Railway Co. v. J. F. French & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
- First National Bank v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.Idaho Supreme Court · 1913
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