Sharp v. Jones

Suit for goods sold and delivered by Jones to Sharp. Complaint containing two paragraplis-^-one on a general, the other upon a special contract of sale.

Answer in three paragraphs.

1. Denying that the plaintiff was the beneficial owner of the goods sold.

If the plaintiff was the owner of the goods through a sale to him by a fraudulent seller, still the legal and beneficial ownership might be in him, and might pass to a bona fide purchaser from him at any time before the creditors of the seller sought to divest him of the property. If the plaintiff *315was only the agent of the owner, and thus not…