Williams v. . Tilt

Davies, Ch.J.

The Defendants, Birch, Nutting-, and Nutting, fraudulently obtained from the Plaintiffs six cases of silks, and sold and transferred them to the Defendants Tilt, who sold four of them to the Defendant Newman.

The complaint as to the Defendants Tilt, Thorp, and Newman, averred “ That the said firm of John S. Birch & Co. put the said silk in the hands of the Defendant, Thorp acting as the agent of the Defendant Tilt, but that said Thorp and Tilt, as the Plaintiffs are informed and believe, received tbe same knowing that it had been obtained under the circumstances above mentioned,…