Yallop-De Groot Co. v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.

The action is for the recovery of a quantity of merchandise in the possession of the railway company as a common carrier, and being transported from Minneapolis to St. Louis, consigned to the defendant Hayes. We shall have occasion to consider only the rights of the plaintiff and of the defendant Hayes to the goods. From the findings of the court, which are sustained by the evidence, the following facts appear: Both parties claim title to the property by sale from one Moork. Moork was indebted to both the plaintiff and the defendant. In payment of his debt to the defendant, Moork sold and…