American Pig Iron Storage Warrant Co. v. Sinnemahoning Iron & Coal Co.

Citations

• 205 Pa. 403
• 54 A. 1047
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 583

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Distress—Bailment—Warehouse receipt.</p> <p>Where a furnace company manufactures pig iron in large quantities from ore and coal on demised premisos, and stores it on the premises near the furnace, and subsequently a warehouse company sublets from the furnace company the small piece of land upon which the pig iron is stored, and places a wire fence around it, and thereafter issues warehouse warrants against the iron, and no notice is given to the landlord, and there is no power to sublet in the lease, the landlord’s right of distress for rent is good as against the holders of the warrants.</p> <p>One who takes warehouse warrants must run the risk of the warehouseman issuing a warrant for goods that were never legally put in his possession by a landlord, who had a prior right of lien.</p>