Vereinigte Aluminium-Werke Aktiengesellschaft v. Atlantic Tidewater Terminals

This action seeks to recover the value of a quantity of aluminum stored for the plaintiff with the defendant as a bonded warehouseman. The allegations of the complaint are admitted, and there is practically no dispute as to the salient facts. The controversy concerns the conclusions to be drawn from those facts and the law applicable thereto. On or about February 25, 1926, there was stored in the defendant’s bonded warehouse, for safekeeping, plaintiff’s 1,690 bundles of aluminum, weighing in the aggregate 89,442 pounds; 1,449 bundles were returned; the remaining 241 bundles, the return of…