F. & L. Manufacturing Co. v. Jomark, Inc.

The plaintiff, a contractor, received defendant’s merchandise to make up into dresses. It- was charged with an agreed valuation of the merchandise and was to receive a stipulated sum per dress for the finished garments. After completion seventy-eight dresses were given to a messenger hired by the plaintiff for delivery to the defendant. The boy stole the dresses. Plaintiff recovered a judgment below based on the agreed price of the seventy-eight dresses. The messenger to whom the goods were intrusted was hired the day before. He had given fictitious information as *350to his address and as to his…