El Dorado Terminal Co. v. General American Tank Car Corp.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying to appellant, plaintiff below, recovery of moneys collected by the appel-lee, defendant below, as agent for appellant, from several interstate railways.

The case is at law, the jury was waived and the court based its judgment against appellant El Dorado Terminal Company, hereinafter referred to as the El Dorado Company on special findings and its conclusions of law.

The El Dorado Oil Works, a corporation owning and operating a vegetable oil refining plant at Berkeley, California, entered into a leasing contract with the ap-pellee…