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MISSOURI, KANS. & TEX. RY. v. SEALY

No. 90.

248 U.S. 363 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 97

63 L.Ed. 296

MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. SEALY ET AL., PARTNERS AS HUTCHINGS, SEALY & COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph M. Bryson, for plaintiff in error, submitted. Mr. W.W. Brown and Mr. James W. Reid were also on the brief.

Mr. Maurice H. Winger, with whom Mr. F.M. Harris, Mr. Arthur Miller and Mr. Samuel J. McCulloch were on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

In June, 1900, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company issued bills of lading to shipper's order covering 27 carloads of grain to be shipped from Kansas City, Missouri, to Galveston, Texas. No grain was in fact delivered to it for shipment; but before the fraud was discovered, the alleged shipper transferred the bills of lading to Hutchings, Sealy & Co., who made advances thereon. The advances were...

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