Hutchinson v. Bours

Citations

• 6 Cal. 383

Syllabus

<p>Where goods are in the possession of a factor, whose usual business it is to buy and sell goods on his own account, and who is clothed with the external evidences of ownership of the particular goods, such apparent ownership gives him the power to sell or pledge.</p> <p>The rule as to the lack of power in factors to pledge, applies only to technical factors, whose notorious employment is to sell goods of others, consigned to thorn for that purpose.</p>