Pollard v. Reardon
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a suit by Reuben T. Pollard and others against Leverett Saltonstall, collector of the port of Boston, and Edmund Reardon, for the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage and an injunction. The circuit court rendered a decree for complainants. 58 Fed. 861. Defendant Reardon and complainants separately appealed from the decree.
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Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a suit by Reuben T. Pollard and others against Leverett Saltonstall, collector of the port of Boston, and Edmund Reardon, for the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage and an injunction. The circuit court rendered a decree for complainants. 58 Fed. 861. Defendant Reardon and complainants separately appealed from the decree. In August, 1888, one N. B. Mansfield made a bill of sale to Pollard, Pettus & Go., of New York, of a quantity of hides then on the coast of Africa, and loaded, or about to be…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The effect to be given to the negotiation of the bill of lading in this case does not seem to have been brought to the attention of the circuit court as it has been to ours. Bills of lading are not negotiable instruments in the full sense that promissory notes are, yet they are justly styled negotiable. Among the reasons for this are that they are well-recognized commercial instruments, that when indorsed in blank they carry title by mere delivery from hand to hand, and that the community gives credit in reliance on what appears on the face of them. Pollard v. Vinton,…
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