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PEED v. BURLESON'S INC.

No. 22.

89 S.E.2d 256 (1955)

242 N.C. 628

Russell L. PEED and J. M. Booth v. BURLESON'S, Inc., E. C. Burleson, Charies R. Pinkston and Richard A. Brown.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 28, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Wilkinson, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff appellees.

J. W. Haynes and Zebulon Weaver, Jr., Asheville, and Rodman & Rodman, Washington, D. C., for defendants Burleson's Inc., E. C. Burleson, and Charles R. Pinkston.

BARNHILL, Chief Justice.

Only one cause of action is stated in the complaint, and that is the cause of action against the defendants for the wrongful conversion of the shipment of potatoes.

We have here, in the first instance, a case of bailment in which the respective rights of the bailor and the bailee to recover for the conversion of the bailed property is at issue.

Of course the bailor, being the owner of the property, can maintain an action for...

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