Southern Express Co. v. Dickson
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
The case, in brief, is this : The agent of the plaintiff Dickson delivered to the express company at Greensboro’, N. C., fifty-two boxes of tobacco, to be shipped to Columbia, S. C. The boxes were consigned to Trent & Rea at that place, and the delivery to the company for shipment was made by Trent, one of that firm, who at the time informed the company that the tobacco was the property of the plaintiff. A written receipt was given by the company in the usual form. The.boxes never left Greensboro’, but were, without authority of the owner, sold by Trent to one Mendenhall, to whom, by the…
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