New York Court of Common Pleas June 15, 1871 (Heard v. Brewer)

lead-opinion

By the Coubt.*—Daly, Ch. J.

—The plaintiffs disclaimed upon the trial any title to the goods as owners or purchasers, but put their right to recover upon the ground that they were the consignees, and had a lien upon the property by the accept*137anee of a draft, drawn upon them by the consignors, prior to the shipment of the goods, and which draft they subsequently paid.