Lowell v. Boston Storage Warehouse Co.

The question presented by this bill of exceptions is whether there was error in refusing to direct a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff sued the defendant, keeper of a public warehouse, for rugs delivered to it and not redelivered on demand. The defendant denied that it ever received the rugs.

There was evidence that the plaintiff had goods in storage with the defendant from May, 1924; and, in January, 1926, decided to break up housekeeping and to store other articles with it. She testified that she employed one McCabe, a truckman, to take these articles and deliver them to the…