Travis Glass Co. v. Ibbetson

The present creditor’s suit for conversion is the outcome of a succession of events which began when the Travis Glass Company, a corporation having its principal place of business in the city of Clarksburg, West Virginia, sold a carload of milk bottles to the Eureka Dairy Company,' a partnership of Los Angeles, California. Upon the arrival of the bottles in Los Angeles, in the month of April, 1918, R. E. Ibbetson, acting as agent for the Eureka Dairy Com pany, directed that they be delivered to the Pacific Commercial Warehouse, which direction was complied with by the railroad company.…