Wright & Colton Wire Cloth Co. v. Warren
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for the alleged conversion by the defendants of thirty-four barrels of zinc shimmings and for the non-delivery of the same to the plaintiff.
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Tort, for the alleged conversion by the defendants of thirty-four barrels of zinc shimmings and for the non-delivery of the same to the plaintiff. Writ dated May 6, 1899. The case was heard by Gaskill, J., without a jury, upon agreed facts, by which it appeared that on or about July 9, 1898, the plaintiff delivered to the Fitchburg Railroad Company at Worcester a carload of zinc shimmings packed in thirty-four barrels marked ^, and took from the railroad company a bill of lading, in which the goods were stated to have been received from Wright & Col-ton Wire Cloth Co. and the consignee was…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
While the defendants when they received the goods had no knowledge of the fact that a bill of lading had been issued to the plaintiff by the Fitchburg Railroad Company, they were notified by the freight bill that the plaintiff was the consignee of the goods, and that the goods were consigned to the care of their line. The words in the freight bill “ Notify O’Connor Brothers,” did not authorize them to treat this firmas the consignee. North v. Merchants & Miners’ Transportation Co. 146 Mass. 315, 319. North Pennsylvania Railroad v. Commercial Bank of Chicago, 123 U. S. 727, 736. Bank of…
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