UNION TRANSFER COMPANY v. RISS & COMPANY

No. 15145.

218 F.2d 553 (1955)

UNION TRANSFER COMPANY, a corporation, Trailmobile, Inc., a corporation, and Employers Mutual Casualty Company, a corporation, Appellants, v. RISS & COMPANY, Inc., a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

January 17, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Sanders, Kansas City, Mo. (Stanley Garrity, Scott R. Timmons and Caldwell, Downing, Garrity & Eastin, Kansas City, Mo., on the brief), for appellants.

Don M. Jackson, Kansas City, Mo. (John H. Kreamer and Gage, Hillix, Moore, Park & Jackson, Kansas City, Mo., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant (appellee) in an action brought to recover the value of a trailer in which each of the plaintiffs had an interest and which was stolen from the defendant's parking lot in Louisville, Kentucky, on or about June 18, 1951. The substance of the plaintiffs' claim is that the defendant was, at the time of the loss, a bailee of the trailer for the mutual benefit of the parties, and that the...

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