Independent Silo Co. v. Hess
Independent Silo Co. v. Hess
Opinion of the Court
The controversy in this case arises over the claims of the respective parties to the proceeds of a certain silo, and is to be resolved by a determination as to whether the title to the same had passed from the plaintiff to one Frank Lowry. The defendants Milton A. Hess and Mary A. King are attaching creditors of said Lowry, and the defendant George Hasenpflug is the receiver of said Lowry.
On May 12, 1916, Frank Lowry gave an order on a printed blank of the plaintiff company, which directed said company to ship to him as purchaser a certain described Independent silo, complete with anchors and roof frame, Lor which he agreed to pay $201, less agent’s commission of ten per cent.,
Pursuant to this order the plaintiff shipped the several parts constituting the silo as described in the contract, from its factory in Minnesota, consigned to Frank Lowry at Berlin Heights, Ohio, delivering the same to a common carrier 'by which they were transported to Berlin Heights; and the goods were received by Lowry and remained ’ in his possession until seized in attachment by the attaching creditors already named. The claims of the attaching creditors exceed very largely the value of the attached property, the judgment in favor of Mary A. King being in excess of $2,300, and the judgment in favor of Milton A. Hess being in excess of $1,000.
The transaction between Lowry and the plaintiff constitutes an ordinary bargain and sale and comes within the- plain language of Section 8399, General Code, which prescribes the rules for
“Rule 4. (1) When there is a contract to sell unascertained or future goods by description, ■ and goods of that description and in a deliverable state are unconditionally appropriated to the contract, either by the seller with the assent of the buyer, or by the buyer with the assent of the seller, the property in goods thereupon passes to the buyer. Such assent may be expressed or implied, and may be given either before or after the appropriation is made.
“(2) When in pursuance of a. contract to sell, the seller delivers the goods to the buyer, or to a carrier or other bailee, whether named by the buyer or not, for the purpose of transmission to or holding for the buyer, he is presumed to have unconditionally appropriated the goods to the contract, except in the cases provided for in the next rule and in the next following section. This presumption is applicable, although by the terms of the contract, the buyer is to pay the price before receiving delivery of the goods, and the goods are marked with the words collect on delivery or their equivalents.”
It will be noticed that the last subdivision- provides certain exceptions which are stated in the next rule and in the section of the General Code next following, but those exceptions are not applicable to the case at bar for the reason that sub
It is insisted, however, by counsel for The Independent Silo Company that the provisions of Section 8422, General Code, are controlling in this case. That section provides substantially that unless otherwise agreed, delivery of the goods and payment of the price are concurrent conditions. The difficulty with applying that statute to the case under consideration is that the parties did otherwise agree, as evidenced by the written order. Under the terms of that order a delivery of the various parts constituting the silo to the common carrier in Minnesota, the goods being consigned to the purchaser, constituted a delivery to him, and the title thereupon passed to the purchaser. It was in effect a sale on credit, and the purchaser had from the time the goods were delivered to the common carrier until they actually arrived in Berlin Heights, and had been inspected by him and found to be in accordance with the order, in which to execute and deliver to the plaintiff a bankable
. Our attention is called to the case of Bonham v. Hamilton, 66 Ohio St., 82, and an argument is made, based on the authority of that case, that the title had not passed from the silo company. That case was decided before the adoption of the Uniform Sales Law; but we find nothing in the conclusion which we have reached that is inconsistent with the law as announced in the case just cited. That case was a sale by an administrator and there had been no delivery of the goods sold, and there was an express stipulation that the transaction was not to be a sale until the sureties had been approved by the administrator. This, of course, was, under the law, no sale until the conditions expressly stipulated for had been complied with, and, the administrator declining to approve the sureties, the title remained in the administrator.
On the trial of the instant case in the court of common pleas a jury was waived, and the judge, after due consideration, rendered judgment Ur the
Judgment affirmed.
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