Robinson v. Nevada Bank
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order refusing a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Hayne, C.
This was an action for damages for the conversion of 3,748 sacks of wheat. The defense was" that the wheat had been pledged to the bank by the respondent’s intestate, J. H. Byers, acting through one W. A. Mathews, who is claimed to have been his agent, to secure the payment of money advanced by the bank, which money had not been repaid. The general facts are as follows: Byers was a farmer in Colusa County, who was in the habit of sending his wheat" to Mathews to be warehoused. Mathews was in the habit of storing the wheat in the Mission Rock warehouse in the name of Byers; and this…
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