Fagin v. Connoly

Fagin, a miller in the city of St. Louis, shipped to Connoly & Co., who were his factors at the time in New Orleans, during the fall of the year 1853, quantities of flour for sale. Among the lots of flour thus sent were 1149 barrels of superfine. The flour was to be sold by defendants for the plaintiff Fagin, and under his directions. These 1149 barrels were in the possession of the defendants as factors and commission merchants of the plaintiff before the 5th of December, 1853, and so remained in their possession until the latter part of January, 1854, when the same were sold by the…