Northern Commercial Co. v. Lindblom

(after stating the facts as above).

The defendant contends that the motion to instruct the jury to find a verdict for the defendant should have been granted, upon the ground that the ownership of the goods at the time they were placed on the steamer Saidie was in the Lucky Three Mining Company, a partnership. It is true that the plaintiff in the course of his testimony did say that, “When the goods were on the Saidie, they belonged to the company”; but he also stated the facts concerning his purchase and shipment of the goods to the *99Lucky Three Mining Company, from which it appeared that the…