State Ex Rel. Pacific Coast Elevator Co. v. Superior Court

A crop of wheat, against which there was an outstanding recorded landlord’s lien, was stored by the lessee, to whom negotiable receipts for the wheat were issued by the warehouseman. These receipts were thereafter negotiated by the lessee and others. May the lien be foreclosed and the warehouse-men compelled to deliver up the actual possession of the wheat to the purchaser of same at sheriff’s sale if the receipts are not surrendered to the warehousemen or impounded by the court? That is the question presented by this cause, which is before us upon the application of the Pacific Elevator…