Young v. Seattle Transfer Co.

Citations

• 33 Wash. 225
• 63 L.R.A. 988
• 74 P. 375
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 512

Syllabus

<p>Warehouseman—Loss of Goods—Contracts by Telephone.— Evidence—Sufficiency. In. an action for the value of a trunk claimed to have heen stored with a transfer company, a verdict for the plaintiff is not supported by any evidence where the only proof tending to show the receipt of the trunk was the fact of a telephone order for its removal and storage, given to defendant’s number and answered by an unidentified person who stated it was the defendant, and that an unidentified expressman removed the trunk.</p>