Estey Co. v. Dick

Citations

• 41 Pa. Super. 610
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 274

Syllabus

<p>Warehouses — Lien for charges — True ownership of goods — Wrongful conversion.</p> <p>1. Where a bailee ends the bailment and secretly deposits the chattel bailed in an incorporated storage warehouse, the storage company has no lien for charges for storage as against the real owner, and cannot refuse to return the chattel to the real owner unless the latter ppys the charges.</p> <p>2. If an owner loses his property or is robbed of it, or it is sold or pledged without his consent by one who has only a temporary right to its use, by hiring or otherwise, or a qualified possession of it for a specific purpose, as for transportation, or for work to be done upon it, the owner can follow and claim it in the possession of any person howsoever innocent.</p>