Skilling v. Bollman
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. The title to the highwines did not pass to plaintiffs by the delivery of the bill of lading. The bill was indorsed to Gregory & Stagg, not to plaintiffs; and plaintiffs paid no. money to the company as proceeds for the drafts, but simply took them for collection. This is shown by the -fact that when the drafts were returned unpaid, plaintiffs ■charged the amount of the drafts back to the company.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. The title to the highwines did not pass to plaintiffs by the delivery of the bill of lading. The bill was indorsed to Gregory & Stagg, not to plaintiffs; and plaintiffs paid no. money to the company as proceeds for the drafts, but simply took them for collection. This is shown by the -fact that when the drafts were returned unpaid, plaintiffs ■charged the amount of the drafts back to the company. Plaintiffs could only have gotten title by paying value. Davenport Bank v. Homeyer, 45 Mo. 145; Newson v. Thornton, 6 East 17; 1 Parsons on Shipping, 194. The…
1Opinion of the CourtHenry, J.
This suit was instituted in the circuit court of St. Louis county by plaintiffs, to recover of defendants the value of 150 barrels of highwines, and the following are the facts on which the controversy arose: Skilling, Carter & Ahrenz were bankers at Beardstown, Illinois, and the Beardstown Distillery Company was a corporation doing business at the same place. In 1874, and subsequent years, said bankers had loaned large sums of money to the distilling company, amounting in February, 1876, to.about $20,000. On the 25th of that month, the distilling company shipped to St. Louis, by steamboat,…
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