Wheelock Bros. v. Bankers Warehouse Co.

Plaintiff, plaintiff in error here, as a common carrier, received and carried to Denver 480 boxes of alcoholic liquors. The freight bill disclosed that it was shipped by Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc., consigned to “order of Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc., notify Liquors, Inc., 1608 Market Street, Denver, Colo.,” and bore the further notation, “Deliver only on surrender of original bill of lading properly endorsed.” Liquors, Inc. was notified of the arrival of the liquor but failed to take up and surrender the bill of lading which had been sent to a Denver bank with draft attached. Liquors, Inc. was…