Goodwin v. Boston & Lowell Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Replevin of com by Hersey B. Goodwin and Joseph H. Locke. Writ dated October 12, 1870. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Scudder, J., without a jury, the following facts appeared: The defendants on September 23,1870, received and held on storage for the plaintiffs in Boston 1056J bushels of corn, to be delivered to the order of the plaintiffs.
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Replevin of com by Hersey B. Goodwin and Joseph H. Locke. Writ dated October 12, 1870. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Scudder, J., without a jury, the following facts appeared: The defendants on September 23,1870, received and held on storage for the plaintiffs in Boston 1056J bushels of corn, to be delivered to the order of the plaintiffs. On September 29 the plaintiffs agreed with Wesley P. Balch, a dealer in grain in Boston, to sell him 1056J bushels of corn for cash, and delivered to him an order therefor on the defendants. No time of payment Was specifically named. The name…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
The plaintiffs, having 1056J bushels of corn on storage with the defendants, sold that quantity to Balch, and delivered to him an order upon the defendants therefor. Balch transferred his interest to Ware, Richardson & Company, by indorsing and delivering to them the order which he had received from the plaintiffs. Ware, Richardson & Company presented the order to the defendants; and the corn was transferred, on the books of the defendants, in accordance with the transfers shown by the order and its indorsement. The defendants thus becama bailees of the corn for Ware, Richardson & Company,…
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