Legal Opinion
Refrigeration Sales Co., Inc. v. Mitchell-Jackson, Inc., a Corporation, and Alfred L. Jackson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 6, 1985No. 84-1081PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a diversity suit, governed by the law of Illinois, for the tort of conversion. The plaintiff is Refrigeration Sales Company, a distributor of refrigerant gases. The defendants are Mitchell-Jackson, Inc., which owns and operates a large warehouse in Chicago, and Alfred Jackson, who is the president of Mitchell-Jackson and directs its day-to-day operations.
Refrigeration Sales had stored cylinders of refrigerant gas in Mitchell-Jackson’s warehouse for many years. Every time it received these cylinders Mitchell-Jackson would issue a warehouse receipt that contained…
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