First National Bank of Chicago v. W. J. Hartzell Co.

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 56
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 318

Syllabus

<p>Carriers — Bills of lading — Passing of title.</p> <p>Where an owner of a carload of eggs in Chicago on December 11, 1909, bills the car to himself at Pittsburg with notice to a corporation doing business in that city, and then makes a draft on such corporation, and sells the draft to a bank in Chicago with the bill of lading indorsed, and turned over to the bank, the title to the goods passes to the bank, and it may maintain its right of ownership to them as against the corporation in Pittsburg which has refused to accept the draft, and has seized the goods under a foreign attachment on a claim in another matter against the maker of the draft; and this is the case both under the law of Illinois and under the Pennsylvania Act of September 24, 1866, P. L. (1867), 1363, then in force.</p>