Hodell v. Tower's Stores, Inc.

This action was brought to recover damages which plaintiffs claim to have sustained by reason of the defendant’s failure to return certain goods which plaintiffs’ assignor, the Morcott Company, had stored with the defendant, a public warehouseman.

Plaintiffs were the holders by indorsement and assignment of defendant’s warehouse receipts, covering four cases of silks, which were admittedly stored in defendant’s public warehouse at 541-545 West Twenty-first street in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York; the issue of the receipts therefor and the receipt of the four cases by defendant are…