Dexter Horton Nat. Bank v. Hawkins

(after stating the facts as above).

The whole question of the right of the receivers to stop the money and bullion in transitu depends upon the answer to the question: To whom did the money and bullion belong while in the possession of the express company? Many decisions are cited concerning the title to property while in the hands of a carrier, on its way from the seller to the buyer, and they sustain the general rule that a delivery of goods by the seller to a carrier designated by the buyer, or to the carrier usually employed in the transportation of goods from the place of the seller to…