OETJEN v. CENTRAL LEATHER CO.

Nos. 268, 269.

246 U.S. 297 (1918)

OETJEN v. CENTRAL LEATHER COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 11, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John M. Enright, with whom Mr. Oscar R. Houston and Mr. James D. Carpenter, Jr., were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Eli J. Blair, with whom Mr. Frank H. Platt was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

These two cases involving the same question, were argued and will be decided together. They are suits in replevin and involve the title to two large consignments of hides, which the plaintiff in error claims to own as assignee of Martinez & Company, a partnership engaged in business in the city of Torreon, Mexico, but which the defendant in error claims to own by purchase from the Finnegan-Brown Company, a...

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