Geilfuss v. Corrigan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. Johnson, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover the value of 10,800 tons of pig iron levied on by the sheriff of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, on the 19th day of July, 1893, upon an execution issued out of the court of common pleas of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, upon a judgment in favor of Price McKinney, receiver of Corrigan, Ives & Co., for $178,908, against the Douglas Furnace Company, a…
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Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. Johnson, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover the value of 10,800 tons of pig iron levied on by the sheriff of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, on the 19th day of July, 1893, upon an execution issued out of the court of common pleas of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, upon a judgment in favor of Price McKinney, receiver of Corrigan, Ives & Co., for $178,908, against the Douglas Furnace Company, a corporation under the laws of the state of Illinois. The title of the iron is the question in •controversy in this case. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed February 23, 1897:
ViNslow, J.
The so-called storage warrants were not warehouse receipts, either under the laws of Pennsylvania ■or of Visconsin. In order to be such, they must be issued by a warehouseman or one openly engaged in the business of storing property for others for a compensation. 1 Brightly’s *664Purd. Dig. (12th ed.), 165, § 1; Bucher v. Comm. 103 Pa. St. 528; Shepardson v. Cary, 29 Wis. 34. And the fact that the receipt was executed by a warehouseman must affirmatively appear in the evidence. Shepardson v. Cary, supra. Not only was there no proof in…
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