Legal.

Progress, Volume III, Issue 4, 1 February 1908, Page 125

Legal.

Bankruptcy Order v. Disposition Proof of IyOSS. Mr. Button was a dealer in antiques and works of art. Mr. Hairside bought goods from him and left them, and other goods bought from other art dealers with Button for safe custody. Subsequently he instructed Button to sell these goods, the value of which was about £758. Button, however, became bankrupt while the goods were in his possession, and the goods were held to be in Button's order and disposition with the consent of the true owner and passed to the trustee in bankruptcy. Hairside claimed to prove against Button's estate for £758 for damages for the non-return of the goods The trustee rejected his proof, and the rejection was upheld by Bingham, J. Held by the Court of Appeal (reversing Bingham, J.), that Hairside should be allowed to prove for the damage sustained by him by reason of his goods not being returned to him, as they should have been according to the contract of bailment. — In rt Button, 23 Times L.R. p. 422.

Kentucky -av\ Illinois, although those ships were not equipped with wireless telephones, attached telephone receivers to the wireless telegraph instrument and htard distinctly the conversational tones of Mr. de Forrest. The Kentucky and Illinois were eleven miles fro in the Connecticut.