Of $1,070.63 for Hay "The action of Mr. I. A. Pavloff in the United States Court for China against the Shanghai Stevedoring Ca.. inc, for damages for unauthorized sale of plaintiff's hay in storage by the defendant warehouseman, was decided yesterday in favour of the plaintiff in the sum of $1,070.63, and costs. Judge Milton J. Helmick, giving his decision, declared "Conceding (but not deciding) that hay is perishable property, it seems fo the Court that the defendant can hardly be said to have complied even -With lenient provisions of Section 48, Title 27, District of Columbia Code, with reference to sale of perishable goods by a warehouseman. Where the owner of the goods is readily £cces sible, as in this case, the Court thinks that even under this section of the Warehousemen's Act some sort of a written warning notice is required before the warehouseman proceeds to sell the goods. Because of its noncompliance with this section the defendant, as a matter of law, has made itself liable to plaintiff for any inadequacy in the selling price. Although the Court thinks the evidence did not establish the market price at the time of the sale to be as high as plaintiff alleges, the Court believes defendant's selling price was too low. Judgment will be entered for plaintiff in the sum of Sh.$1,070.63 and costs."
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