Jones v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

The plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Lancaster county to recover the value of a car-load, of flour alleged to haye been converted by the defendant. The flour was shipped by the WashburnCrosby Company of Minneapolis, and a controversy arose between that company and the plaintiff ás to tbe right to the flour. It was the duty of the defendant railroad company to deliver the flour to the true owner, and it was delivered to the Minneapolis company. The question, then, is whether the Minneapolis company or this plaintiff was the owner of the flour and entitled to the delivery…