Rhoads v. Walsh

Citations

• 48 Pa. Super. 465
• 1912 Pa. Super. LEXIS 392

Syllabus

<p>Bailment — Warehousemen—Storage charges — Principal and agent.</p> <p>Where a bailee of household goods under an installment lease stores the goods in a storage warehouse without the knowledge or consent of the bailor, and the agent of the latter on discovering this fact, takes an assignment of the warehouse receipt, and notifies the warehouseman of the true ownership of the goods, the latter may recover from the bailor the storage charges, at least, from the date of the assignment, and irrespective of any agreement on the part of the bailor’s agent to pay them.</p>