Traders National Bank v. Huttig Manufacturing Co.
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. C. C. Nesmith. Action by the Huttig Manufacturing Company against the Traders’ National Bank for conversion. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. C. C. Nesmith. Action by the Huttig Manufacturing Company against the Traders’ National Bank for conversion. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The complaint declares in count 1 in detinue for 97 squares three-ply Huttig’s roofing, together with the value of the hire or use thereof; in count 2, for damages for the conversion of the above-described property; and in count 8, for damages for the conversion of the property belonging to the plaintiff, alleged to have been secured by the defendant upon warehouse receipts delivered to…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
The propositions advanced in behalf of the appellant must be disposed of adversely to it on the authority of the ruling made in the case of People’s Sawings Bank & Trust Co. v. Huttig Manufacturing Co., supra, 55 South. 929. The present case is not differentiated in principle from the case referred to by the fact, disclosed in this case, that, on the payment of the note to the appellant, which was secured by the wrongfully obtained warehouse receipts representing the appellee’s property, the warehouse receipts were by the appellant, at the request of the maker of the note, turn*456ed over to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Huttig Manufacturing Co.Alabama Court of Appeals · 1911
3Cited by1 opinion
- Porch v. LewisAlabama Court of Appeals · 1912