Parker v. Tiffany

It appears that appellee, who had his house destroyed hy fire in the spring of 1862, had placed his household furniture in a building in the possession of one Fergus. After a short time, Fergus desiring to use the room in which the furniture was stored, appellee removed the property to appellant’s building on Dearborn street, used by him as an auction and commission house. The furniture seems to have been almost new, and of fine quality, and had been but little used. Appellee took no receipt for the goods, although he made and kept a list, and Parker seems not to have made an inventory of the…