Bedig v. Southern Pacific Co.

THOMPSON (R. L.), J., pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment for defendants, in an action for alleged conversion of two carloads of grapes, shipped from Kings County, over the Southern Pacific Railroad, and originally consigned to the Bedig Produce Company at Chicago. The defendants deny that plaintiff was the owner of the grapes, and upon the contrary allege that they were owned by the Reliance Fruit Company, and were billed in the name of plaintiff by agreement as a matter of accommodation, and reconsigned to the purchaser California Growers & Shippers of Fresno, by H. J. Ellis, as the…