Rudy v. Quincy Market Cold Storage & Warehouse Co.

This is an action to recover compensation for damages resulting from the alleged refusal or failure of *493the defendant to return certain merchandise stored for hire by the plaintiff with the defendant as warehouseman. Controversy as to the delivery of the goods by the plaintiff to the defendant has been settled in favor of the former by an answer of the jury to a special question. The case on the facts as thus settled is that the plaintiff delivered to the defendant three casés containing rolls of cloth, for which the defendant issued a nonnegotiable warehouse receipt under the warehouse…