Anderson v. Portland Flouring Mills Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Clackamas : Thos. A. McBride, Judge. Action for conversion of wheat by J. F. Anderson against the Portland Flouring Mills Co. The defendant is a corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, and storing wheat and manufacturing flour at Oregon City.
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From Clackamas : Thos. A. McBride, Judge. Action for conversion of wheat by J. F. Anderson against the Portland Flouring Mills Co. The defendant is a corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, and storing wheat and manufacturing flour at Oregon City. During the years 1891, 1892, and 1893, John Gash, George Anderson, William McAlister, R. T. McNichols, J. P. Frizzell, and the plaintiff severally delivered wheat to W. E. Loughmiller & Co., at Switzerland and other stations on the Woodburn Branch of the Southern Pacific Railway, amounting in the aggregate to four thousand two…
1Opinion of the Court
. Mr. Justice Bean,
after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
1. To support the first, third and sixth causes of action, the plaintiff introduced in evidence five warehouse receipts, dated at Silverton, Oregon, and signed by ~W. E. Loughmiller & Co., and was permitted, over defendant’s objection and exception, to give evidence aliunde the receipts, tending to prove that Loughmiller & Co., in signing and issuing them, were acting as the agents of defendant, and that such receipts were in fact the contracts of the defendant. The admission of this evidence constitutes the first…
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