F. L. Shaw Co. v. Coleman
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Lamar County ; A. P. Dohoney, Judge. Action by the E. L. Shaw Company against J. G. Coleman and Arnold Goode, and J. G. Coleman and Earnest McGlosson, and J. G. Coleman and B. W. Tinnin, respectively. Judgments for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from District Court, Lamar County ; A. P. Dohoney, Judge. Action by the E. L. Shaw Company against J. G. Coleman and Arnold Goode, and J. G. Coleman and Earnest McGlosson, and J. G. Coleman and B. W. Tinnin, respectively. Judgments for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. January 29, 1921, the E.- L. Shaw Company, a corporation, of Dallas, commenced suit against J. G. Coleman and Arnold Goode, alleging that it was the owner and entitled to the possession of a certain Studebaker automobile, particularly described, of ’the value of $1,612, which Coleman and Goode had wrongfully obtained…
1Opinion of the CourtWildson, C. J.
(after stating the facts as above). In what is to follow the word “appellant” means the Shaw Company; the word “dealer,” appellee Coleman; and the word “purchaser,” appellees Goode, McGlos-son, and Tinnin, respectively.
[1] The shipment being an interstate one as between the Studebaker Corporation and appellant, it may be conceded at once that -the bill of lading was an “order bill” and negotiable within the meaning of the federal net (sections 8604a to 8604n, TJ. S. Compiled Statutes), and that appellant, to whom it was negotiated, acquired such title to the automobiles as the Studebaker…
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