Hogan v. Detroit United Railway

Plaintiff brings this suit to recover for the conversion of certain electrical apparatus described as three rotary motors (hereafter called “rotaries”) which his assignor, the Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company, sold and delivered upon a written contract of sale— reserving title in itself until the purchase price was fully paid — to the Detroit Construction Company. The Detroit -Construction Company had a contract to build a suburban railway for the Detroit, Rochester, Romeo & Lake Orion Railway, and it purchased these rotaries for the purpose of using the same in performing that…