Parker v. Lombard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against Ammi C. Lombard and John S. Parsons for the conversion of ten bales of cotton. At the trial in the superior court, before Morton, J., a verdict was returned against Parsons, and in favor of Lombard, and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which were allowed, as follows: 16 It appeared in evidence that on July 19, 1866, George H. Frothingham sent the cotton to the warehouse of Parsons, who was then a warehouseman at No. 18 Lewis’s Wharf, in Boston, and received a…
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Tort against Ammi C. Lombard and John S. Parsons for the conversion of ten bales of cotton. At the trial in the superior court, before Morton, J., a verdict was returned against Parsons, and in favor of Lombard, and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which were allowed, as follows: 16 It appeared in evidence that on July 19, 1866, George H. Frothingham sent the cotton to the warehouse of Parsons, who was then a warehouseman at No. 18 Lewis’s Wharf, in Boston, and received a warehouse receipt for it from Parsons’s clerk, it being intended that the cotton should remain there for a con-siderable…
1Opinion of the CourtHoar, J.
The only point in controversy is, whether there was any evidence of a conversion of the cotton by the defendant Lombard. When he hired the warehouse, the cotton was already stored there, in the possession of Parsons, the preceding lessee of the building. Parsons delivered it into his custody to keep on storage for Hobbs & Travis, who were not the owners, and had no title to it whatever. Lombard kept it as long as he was willing to do so, and then gave notice to Hobbs & Travis to take it away, which they did, he delivering it to them. He had no notice that the plaintiff was the owner, and that…
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