S. Ellsner & Co. v. Radcliff

Appellants placed in the hands of Steinhardt & Co., at Decatur, Illinois, a quantity of cloaks, to sell at retail and account to them for their value. While in the possession of Steinhardt & Co., under this arrangement, the cloaks were levied upon by appellees as the property of Steinhardt & Co., for their debts. Whether the transaction between appellants and Steinhardt & Co. was a sale by which the title to the property passed to the latter or whether Steinhardt & Co. were factors or agents of appellants, is a disputed question upon which we shall express no opinion for the reason that…