Lawrence Warehouse Co. v. Twohig

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

A livestock commission firm sued a warehouse company for restitution, on the alternative theories (a) that plaintiff was the owner of 100 beef carcasses, which had been placed in defendant’s refrigerated warehouse and which defendant had allegedly converted to its own use, or (b) that plaintiff had such a beneficial interest in the carcasses, with defendant having knowledge of plaintiff’s equitable rights, as to make defendant’s appropriation or use of the carcasses, to take the place of other carcasses on which defendant had issued warehouse receipts, and to effect a…