Union Feed Co. v. Pacific Clipper Line

Citations

• 31 Wash. 28
• 71 P. 552
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 578

Syllabus

<p>CABBIEBS-ACTION FOB LOSS OF GOODS-TITLE OF PLAINTIFF.</p> <p>In an action to recover the value of hay lost through the negligence of a carrier, while stored in its dock awaiting shipment, plaintiff’s ownership, though denied, is sufficiently established, where the evidence shows that plaintiff employed a third party to purchase the hay for it and deliver same at the dock to be shipped plaintiff, who had agreed to pay such third party a stipulated price per ton, when it appears that the plaintiff and such third party, between themselves, always treated the title to the hay as being in plaintiff.</p>