Thoms v. D. C. Andrews & Co.

(after stating the facts as above).

Stripped of all nonessentials, this ease discloses a purchaser of goods, who had paid for them and left them with the seller to be shipped to him by the seller, seeking to recover from one whom the seller employed to act as its agent in forwarding the goods by water and to whom the seller had shipped them by rail to seaboard for such purpose, and who then, without notice of the true ownership, complied with the directions of its principal, the seller, to return the goods, in legal effect, to its principal from whom they had been received.

Under the facts…