Bogle's Administrator v. Thompson

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Reversing.

The Kentucky Title Trust Company, as administrator of William Y. Bogle, brought this action April 12, 1927, against John B. Thompson upon 29 warehouse receipts issued by Thompson covering 145 barrels of Old Jordan whisky, alleging that by the receipts Thompson agreed to hold the whisky in a warehouse subject to the order of the holder of the warehouse receipts, and to deliver the whisky only upon the return of the receipts properly indorsed, but that, in violation of his agreement, Thompson had, without the consent of Bogle, the holder of…