City National Bank v. Isenberg

Citations

• 59 Pa. Super. 162
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 39

Syllabus

<p>Bills of lading — Passing of title — Carriers—Banks and banking.</p> <p>Where an owner of automobiles, a corporation in Indiana, on April 15, 1911, bills a car of such automobiles to itself at Philadelphia with notice to a partnership doing business in that city and then makes a draft on such partnership and sells the draft to a bank in Indiana with the bill of lading indorsed and turned over to the bank, and the latter credits the proceeds to a special account of the shipper from which account the shipper has a full right to cheek, the title to the goods passes to the bank, and it may maintain its right of ownership to them as against the partnership in Philadelphia, which has refused to accept the draft, and has seized the goods under a foreign attachment on a claim against the shipper. Such a case comes within the terms of the Act of September 24, 1866 (P. L. 1867), 1363, then in force.</p>