Legal Opinion
Weed v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided April 25, 1925PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.
On report. Troven against the terminal road for the misdelivery of merchandise. The case antedates both the Negotiable Instruments and the Uniform Bills of Lading Acts.
The action must fail. At the time of the asserted taking and conversion, the plaintiff was without property and possession in the personalty, having conveyed the same to his bank. These are the facts of the story:
An Aroostook county dealer consigned from his home station to himself at Nashua, New Hampshire, on June 20, 1916, one carload of potatoes, under direction that his prospective purchaser, the concern of Holbrook,…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Burton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Cragie v. . HadleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
- American Trust & Savings Bank v. Gueder & Paeschke Manufacturing Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1894
- Fourth National Bank of Montgomery v. BraggSupreme Court of Virginia · 1920
- Aebi v. Bank of EvansvilleWisconsin Supreme Court · 1905
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Olinger v. SandersIndiana Court of Appeals · 1931
- Bassett v. Mechanics BankSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1933
- Bourque-Lanigan Post No. 5 v. CareySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1952
- Sanborn v. MatthewsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1945
- United Feldspar & Minerals Corp. v. BumpusSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1944
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