Alderman v. Eastern Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tost for the conversion of a car-load of oats. In the Superior Court judgment was rendered for the defendant on an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows, and the plaintiff appealed to this court: On March 13,1871, Botsford, Hibbard & Company, of Detroit, Michigan, delivered the car-load of oats in question at Detroit, to a line of transportation known as the Blue Line Through Freight Company, to be transported to Salem, Massachusetts, and there delivered to the…
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Tost for the conversion of a car-load of oats. In the Superior Court judgment was rendered for the defendant on an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows, and the plaintiff appealed to this court: On March 13,1871, Botsford, Hibbard & Company, of Detroit, Michigan, delivered the car-load of oats in question at Detroit, to a line of transportation known as the Blue Line Through Freight Company, to be transported to Salem, Massachusetts, and there delivered to the order of Botsford, Hibbard & Co., and received from that company a bill of Jading accordingly.' The oats were duly…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
This case cannot be distinguished from that of Newcomb v. Boston f Lowell Railroad, ante, 230, in any particular favorable to the defendant. The bill of lading, with the draft attached to it, was transmitted to the bank with directions to indorse the bill of lading to Chandler & Co. upon the payment of the draft. As soon as Chandler & Co. paid the draft and obtained the bill of lading from the bank, they immediately indorsed the latter to the plaintiffs as security for the money advanced by them to pay the draft, and a property in the goods thereby vested in the plaintiffs. The sale and…
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