King v. Richards
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court for the City hnd County of Philadelphia. This was an action of trover in the court below, brought by Benjamin W. Richards and Joseph Bispham, trading under the firm of Richards & Bispham, against Charles King and Francis King, trading as C. & F. King, to recover the value of 100 bags of coffee.
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Error to the District Court for the City hnd County of Philadelphia. This was an action of trover in the court below, brought by Benjamin W. Richards and Joseph Bispham, trading under the firm of Richards & Bispham, against Charles King and Francis King, trading as C. & F. King, to recover the value of 100 bags of coffee. The defendants pleaded the general issue; upon which the cause came on for trial before Stroud, J., on the 10th of April, 1839, when the plaintiffs called one George B. Jones, who testified as follows : “ I am in the employ of Richards & Bispham; was so in 1836 ; this is the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion, of the court was delivered by
Kennedy,- J,
The only question raised in this case is, whether the defendants, the bailees of goods delivered to them as common carriers, to be transported from the city of New York to the city of Philadelphia, ought to be permitted to show, in an action brought by the bailors or their assignees, that the bailors had no right to the goods whatever; that, they had obtained the possession of them fraudulently from the true owner without his consent; and that upon demand made of the goods by the latter, the defendants below, who are the plaintiffs in…
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