Blackman v. Pierce

Citations

• 23 Cal. 508

Syllabus

<p>The vendor of goods who has sold them on credit to one who is insolvent, has a right to stop the goods and take them into his possession at any time before they arrive at their place of destination, and go into the possession of the purchaser.</p> <p>This right of stoppage in transitu is paramount to any lien on the goods claimed by third persons through the purchaser, and may be exercised to defeat an attachment or execution levied upon the goods by a creditor of the vendee. When a warehouseman, who has goods in charge, states to one who is about to take possession of the same, by a legal process, that he has no charges on the goods, this is a waiver of the warehouseman’s lien for charges, if any he had.</p>