Robson v. Swart
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This action was commenced -in the District Court for Winona County, and was tried before the court without a jury. The facts found, and the conclusions of law arrived at bv tbe court below, appear in tbe opinion of tbe Court. Judgment was entered for tbe defendant, and tbe plaintiff appeals to tliis Court.
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This action was commenced -in the District Court for Winona County, and was tried before the court without a jury. The facts found, and the conclusions of law arrived at bv tbe court below, appear in tbe opinion of tbe Court. Judgment was entered for tbe defendant, and tbe plaintiff appeals to tliis Court. Swart is estopped from denying the truth of tbe admissions contained in bis receipts as against Robson, who is an innocent purchaser, especially as these admissions or statements relate to matters'which were or ought to have been within tbe knowledge of himself or agents. An estoppel in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the. Court
Berry, J.-
-In this case the court below lias found the following conclusions of fact and law, viz.:
“ That during the time from the month of August, A. D. 1866, up to the month of July, A. D. 1867, the defendant, J. G-. Swart, was a general warehouseman, engaged, among other things, in receiving grain in store for others for hire, doing business as such warehouseman, at Minneiska, in the State of Minnesota; that during the months of September and October, A. D. 1866, one A. P. Poster was the owner of, and delivered to said defendant as such warehouseman, nine hundred and…
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