Merchants' National Bank of Cincinnati v. Bangs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for the conversion of a car load of corn. At the trial in the superior court, before Vbse, J., the plaintiffs, to prove title, put in evidence a sight draft for $451.22, dated at Cincinnati, September 12,1867, drawn on the defendant by David Schwartz & Company of that city, and indorsed by them, and also a bill of lading purporting to be signed by an agent of the White Line Central Transit Company, dated at Cincinnati, September 12, 1867, acknowledging the receipt from…
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Tort for the conversion of a car load of corn. At the trial in the superior court, before Vbse, J., the plaintiffs, to prove title, put in evidence a sight draft for $451.22, dated at Cincinnati, September 12,1867, drawn on the defendant by David Schwartz & Company of that city, and indorsed by them, and also a bill of lading purporting to be signed by an agent of the White Line Central Transit Company, dated at Cincinnati, September 12, 1867, acknowledging the receipt from David Schwartz & Company of one ear of corn in bulk consigned to the defendant at Springfield, “ which they agree to…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The defendant claims title to the property in dispute, under an order given for four car loads of corn, to David Schwartz & Company of Cincinnati, which the latter undertook to fill. He produces the written correspondence with them, and relies upon the transactions which followed, to prove delivery. Three car loads were sent at intervals of time, according to orders, and the drafts of David Schwartz & Company, drawn against them, were paid by the defendant as they were presented. The car load in question, being the last of the four, arrived in Springfield, and was taken by him upon payment of…
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