Rankin v. Shephardson

Citations

• 89 Ill. 445

Syllabus

<p>Bailment—liability of parties becoming partners with bailee. Where a party stores grain in the cribs of one buying grain for himself, but which grain is simply taken for storage and not mixed with other grain of the bailee, and the bailee afterwards, upon entering into partnership with others in the grain business, receives credit for the grain so stored with him as so much capital, the title to the corn will not pass to them, as in the case of a purchase from a warehouseman when the corn stored is commingled with other grain, but the firm will sustain the same relation to the bailor as the original bailee, and on a sale of such corn by the firm all its members will be liable to the bailor for the proceeds.</p>