Pratt v. Northern Pacific Express Co.
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of tte Second Judicial District for tbe County of Nez Perce. Hon. Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Action by the plaintiff to recover the sum of $660 from the defendant on account of a consignment to him of that sum of money. Judgment for the plaintiff and defendant appeals.
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APPEAL from the District Court of tte Second Judicial District for tbe County of Nez Perce. Hon. Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Action by the plaintiff to recover the sum of $660 from the defendant on account of a consignment to him of that sum of money. Judgment for the plaintiff and defendant appeals. "While a consignee is prima facie, in the absence of any explanation, the owner of the consignment, this presumption is rebutted on a showing that the consignment is of money sent by a debtor 'to a creditor for payment upon the indebtedness; where in such ease the money is lost in transit or is not…
1Opinion of the CourtAilshie, C. J.
This action was prosecuted by the plaintiff against the Northern Pacific Express Company for the recovery of the sum of $660, consigned by one J. W. Pratt from the defendant’s office at Culdesac, Idaho, to the plaintiff at Lewiston, Idaho. On the twenty-third day of November, 1904, the consignor, J. W. Pratt, delivered to the defendant’s agent at its office in Culdesac, a sack or package for shipment containing $660, lawful money of the United States, and prepaid the charges thereon, and the package was addressed and directed to the plaintiff at Lewiston. The defendant’s agent issued to the…
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