A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Co. v. Peterson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. For several years prior to February 26,1892, one F. B. Schuchardt, under a lease, occupied the seventh floor of a building owned by appellant, and had therein six photogravure printing presses, one lead-lined acid tank, five lithograph stones, six brass and rubber tympans, one Anson Hardy paper cutter, one office table, one office desk and chair. Schuchardt was engaged in photograph printing, and became indebted to appellee…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
Where the goods and chattels sold are of a nature or character that thej^do not admit of an actual, immediate and complete delivery, the law recognizes and allows a symbolical delivery as being a sufficient transfer and delivery. The delivery of the keys of a store or building in which goods are, is construed clearly expressive of a symbolical delivery which will pass the possession, where such is the intent of the parties, in good faith. (Wilkes v. Farris, 5 Johns. 335; Packard v. Dunsmore, 11 Cush. 282; Marsh v. Fuller, 18 N. H. 360; Vincent v. Gilbreth, 39 Me. 496; Sullivan v. Smith, 15…
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