Stiles v. Simon

KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants (whom we shall call defendants) operate a distillery bonded warehouse at Bardstown, Ky. Ap*866pellees (whom we shall call-plaintiffs) reside at St. Louis, Mo., and own warehouse receipts, issued by defendants’ predecessor corporation on December. 12, 1916, and on later dates (and acquired by plaintiffs, as asserted, previous to the National Prohibition Act [41 Stat. 305]), for 725 barrels of whisky stored in defendant’s distillery warehouse. These receipts acknowledge the holding of the whisky subject to the order of the depositor, “deliverable only on return of…