Foerderer v. Tradesmen's Nat. Bank of New York

WALLACE, Circuit Judge.

Error is assigned of the ruling of the trial judge in directing a verdict for the defendant.

The action was in trover, brought to recover for the conversion of certain bales of wool; and the facts proved upon the trial, so far as they are material for present purposes, were these; The plaintiff made an agreement with the Keen-Sutterle Company, a corporation doing business as commission merchants at Philadelphia, by which the corporation was to import and sell wool on his account for a stated commission; the wool to be bought abroad upon á credit to be provided at London…