Moore v. Manhattan Co.

VEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment against the appellant in a suit brought by appellant for the value of two oriental rugs that she had stored in 1953 with the E. P. Hinkel & Company, Inc.1

The evidence at trial, without a jury, revealed that the appellant and her late husband had stored four oriental rugs with the Hinkel Company in 1953 and thereafter paid the storage charges as bills were received. In February of 1959, unknown to appellant, the Manhattan Company trading *721as Hinkel Rug Cleaning took over the business at that address under a so-called “lease” agreement.…