Sheehan & Egan, Inc. v. American Railway Express Co.

This is an action of replevin to obtain from the defendant, a common carrier, certain merchandise alleged to be unlawfully detained by it. The evidence introduced by the plaintiff tended to prove that it occupied under a written lease from Dreyfus & Co., a corporation, herein referred to as the lessor, a part of a department store, in Virginia, for the display and sale by the plaintiff of shoes manufactured at its factory in Lynn, Massachusetts. The plaintiff was in arreas for rent and the lessor placed an attachment on its merchandise in Virginia in an action brought there to recover rent.…