Roland M. Baker Co. v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for thé alleged conversion of one hundred and twenty bales of dry cowhides. Writ dated October 10, 1910. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hitchcock, J., without a jury. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
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Tort for thé alleged conversion of one hundred and twenty bales of dry cowhides. Writ dated October 10, 1910. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hitchcock, J., without a jury. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The defendants asked the judge to make the following rulings: “6. In so far as the provisions of St. 1910, c. 214, are applicable to foreign commerce, or to goods which are being imported from foreign countries or to bills of lading covering such goods before the importation has been concluded, it is contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of the United…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
This case seems to have been dealt with, both at the trial and at the argument in this court, largely as if the plaintiff’s rights depended upon the title which it acquired when the bill of lading for the goods in question, with the indorsements thereon, was delivered to it. If that were so, it might be found, • as was found at the trial, that the plaintiff took the bill of lading with notice of the defendants’ claim to the goods represented thereby and of the trust receipt which the defendants had taken from the Massachusetts Hide Company, and so was not a purchaser in good faith and without…
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