Bliss v. Geer

The two principal questions arising in the present record are, first, whether there was a delivery of the goods sufficient to vest the title thereto in the defendant, and if there was, then secondly, whether the subsequent institution of the replevin suit by the plaintiffs, assuming this to have been done by their authority, was sufficient to prevent a recovery by them against the defendant for the price of the goods.

As to the first question, it appears from the evidence that the goods were shipped at Chicago, in the name of Madden, via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, to Hastings,…