Klock Produce Co. v. Diamond Ice & Storage Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Dykeman, J., entered October 19, 1915, upon findings in favor of the defendant, in an action for conversion, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBausman, J.
The Klock Company holds defendant’s warehouse receipt for cheese. The statute on warehouse receipts (Laws 1913, p. 279; 3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 3369-1 et seq.) permits the warehouseman to make them either negotiable or nonnegotiable and prescribes for the former a definition. While this receipt does not conform to that definition, it was specially stamped “Negotiable,” was so issued, and was properly deemed negotiable by the lower court.
After getting the receipt, plaintiff, from time to time, withdrew quantities which were regularly indorsed. On one such occasion, however, the warehouseman also…
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