Bank of Beloit v. . Beale

The plaintiff consigned to the defendants for sale a quantity of wool, which they sold at different times and for different prices. The last sale was made on the 11th of September, 1858. That the gross amount received was $7,375.36. This appeared from account of sales rendered by the defendants to the plaintiff.

The defendants set up as a defense that one B.A. Sweet was the owner of said wool, and that the same was in the possession of one Marcel B. Sherwood, in the State of Wisconsin, as the agent of said Sweet, and that said Sherwood held said wool in his possession as such agent, for the…