German National Bank v. Meadowcroft

It appears from the transcript in this case that one Runyan, about the 10th day of July, 1876, being indebted to the German National Bank of Chicago, conveyed to Herman Schaffner, its cashier, in trust for the bank, a public warehouse for grain in the city, known as “Runyan’s Elevator;” that afterwards, about the 1st day of November of that year, the bank, through its agents, took possession of the warehouse, in which there was at that time 18,000 or 20,000 bushels of barley stored for different persons. Appellee held warehouse receipts for a trifle over 6000 bushels of this grain, which had…