Frame v. Oregon Liquor Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Baker: Samuel White, Judge. Statement by Mr. Chiee Justice Bean. This is an action by R. W. Frame, doing business as the Frame Forwarding Co., against Ben Grunbaum and Lee Hirschland, doing business as the Oregon Liquor & Cigar Co., to recover damages for the conversion of personal property. The plaintiff is engaged in the warehouse and forwarding business at Huntington, a station on the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.’s railroad.
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From Baker: Samuel White, Judge. Statement by Mr. Chiee Justice Bean. This is an action by R. W. Frame, doing business as the Frame Forwarding Co., against Ben Grunbaum and Lee Hirschland, doing business as the Oregon Liquor & Cigar Co., to recover damages for the conversion of personal property. The plaintiff is engaged in the warehouse and forwarding business at Huntington, a station on the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.’s railroad. Some time prior to December, 1903, one Olsen, a liquor and cigar dealer at Drewsey, a town about 60 miles from Huntington, ordered certain goods of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Bean
There are many assignments of error, but they may be grouped under substantially three heads: (1) The admission in evidence of a letter written by the plaintiff to the defendants on December 30, 1903, notifying them of the order from Olsen to return the goods to the consignors and asking for a copy of the order which they had represented they had from Olsen for the possession of the goods, and intimating that if they did not have such an order plaintiff would be constrained to commence legal proceedings to recover the goods or their value; (2) the *275admission of evidence tending to show that…
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