Ocean Steamship Co. v. Ehrlich & Bro.

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

The right of stoppage in transitu was exercised by certain vendors and consignors of goods sold and consigned to Epstein & Wannbacher under the following circumstances: The goods were shipped from New York to Savannah, the carrier being the Ocean Steamship Company. They arrived and were put on the wharf of the steamship company at Savannah. The freight and wharfage had been paid, the bills therefor were receipted, and nothing remained to be done to change the actual possession from the carrier to the consignees except to remove the goods from the wharf. It was the…