Smith's Transfer Corp. v. Alterman Foods, Inc.

Birdsong, Judge.

Conversion. Alterman Foods, a grocery wholesaler and chain store owner, purchased a truckload of coffee (30,000 pounds of assorted coffee) from General Foods in Jacksonville. Smith’s Transfer Corporation dispatched a tractor and trailer to Jacksonville to bring the coffee to Atlanta. On the same trailer was an additional amount of coffee for a customer in Columbus, Georgia. The trailer was driven to Smith’s warehouse in Ellenwood, Georgia, where the shipment for Columbus was removed from the trailer for further transhipment. No discrepancy was noted in the quantity off-loaded…