Kemper Grain Co. v. Harbour
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Wyandotte district court, division No. 1. STATEMENT. The precise contents of the memoranda exchanged by the Kemper Grain Company and Alvin Harbour, doing business as Harbour Grain Company, referred to in the following opinion, are shown by these copies MEMBER WICHITA BOARD OF TRADE. CODES, ROBINSON’S RIVERSIDE. Harbour Grain Company, 209 Board of Trade, Wichita, Kansas.
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Appeal from Wyandotte district court, division No. 1. STATEMENT. The precise contents of the memoranda exchanged by the Kemper Grain Company and Alvin Harbour, doing business as Harbour Grain Company, referred to in the following opinion, are shown by these copies MEMBER WICHITA BOARD OF TRADE. CODES, ROBINSON’S RIVERSIDE. Harbour Grain Company, 209 Board of Trade, Wichita, Kansas. No. 295. 12/13/1. Kem/per Grain Co., City: Gentlemen — This confirms purchase of you to-day by person. (Johns) of one ear 2/60 hard wheat, at 95c per bu., basis Kansas City, subject to sample inspection and our…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
MASON, J.:
The Kemper Grain Company owned several cars of wheat upon the tracks of the Santa Fe Railway Company at Wichita. It made a bargain with Alvin Harbour, doing business as the Harbour Grain Company, for the sale to him of the wheat. Without having paid for it, Harbour obtained possession, or such color of possession as enabled him to reship it in his own name to his own order, and to procure bills of lading from the railway company. Upon the strength of these bills of lading he sold the wheat to different persons, receiving payment. The Kemper…
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