Monjo v. French

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Monjo v. French, 163 Pa. 107 (Pa. 1894)
29 A. 907; 1894 Pa. LEXIS 1150
Dean, Green, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams

Monjo v. French

Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Green,

In the opinion we have, just filed in the case of Brown Bros. & Co. v. Billington, No. 247, Jan. Term, 1894, [reported above, page 76,] we have expressed at length the reasons why, upon the facts of the case, we regarded the transaction there in question as a bailment and not as a sale. In the present case the facts are substantially of the same character. Fisher never had any ownership of the cement, never paid anything for it, was not the consignee and did not have the bill of lading. The only right he did have to take the cement iii charge and to sell *109it was derived entirely from the contract with Monjo, who had paid the whole of the purchase- money. . By that contract he was to act merely as a selling agent for Monjo, and pay the proceeds of the sales to him. It was a bailment for sale only, and in no event was Fisher to become the owner of the cement. Upon these considerations, and for the reasons more fully expressed in the opinion in the case of Brown Bros. v. Billington we détermine this contention in the same manner and reverse the judgment of the court below.

Judgment reversed and new venire awarded.

Reference

Full Case Name
Louis Monjo v. Samuel H. French
Cited By
3 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Bailment—Sale—Sheriff's interpleader. On a sheriff’s intoiqfieader it appeared the goods in dispute had been consigned to a firm of bankers to whom the bill of lading had been sent. Plaintiffs paid the price of the goods to the bankers and directed them to be delivered to defendant in the execution, who gave plaintiffs a receipt acknowledging the goods to -be plaintiffs’ property, and agreeing to sell the same and pay over the proceeds to plaintiffs. The defendant in the execution was to have a share of the profits. Held, that the transaction was a bailment and not a sale of the goods, and that the goods were not subject to be taken in execution as the property of the bailee.