Alaska Truck Transport, Inc. v. Berman Packing Co.

DIMOND, Justice.

Appellee was indebted to appellant for transportation services and storage. Appellant sold some cartons it was holding which belonged to appellee, and credited the amount realized to appellee’s account.

A dispute arose over whether or not ap-pellee had authorized the sale of the cartons. . Its position was that it had not and that.appellant had converted the cartons to its own use by the sale.

Appellee tendered a check to appellant in full satisfaction of its account. A letter accompanying the check indicated that there had been deducted from the total of transportation and…