Monjo v. French
Monjo v. French
Opinion of the Court
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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
Judgment reversed and new venire awarded.
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- Louis Monjo v. Samuel H. French
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- 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.