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1 Del. 353

Sharp v. Arthurs

Superior Court of Delaware

Decided July 1, 1857

Superior Court of Delaware · decided 1857-07-01

<p>If a person buys goods and pays for them, but allows another ,to take them and sell them, retaining the entire profits over and above the original cost of them, for his own benefit, they are the property of the purchaser, and are not liable to execution process against the party receiving and selling them.</p>

Decided 1857-07-01

¶1 The Court,

Harrington, Ch. J.,

¶2charged the jury: That the question involved in the case was solely a question of fact, to be determined by them from the evidence which they had heard. If, therefore, they were satisfied from the evidence that the carriages in question were the property of the plaintiff, and that his money was actually paid for them, and that Mongar was merely to receive and sell them, and repay the plaintiff the original cost of them, retaining the profit for his own benefit and the support of his family, the plaintiff was entitled to recover. But if they should believe, from the facts proved, that Mongar in fact paid for them, or was to pay for them with his own *355money, or out of the money accruing from the sale of them, and the plaintiff’s name was only used to obtain credit with the makers of whom they were purchased, and to prevent their seizure by Mongar’s creditors, then their verdict should be for the defendant.

Smithers, for plaintiff. Ridgely, for defendant.

¶3Verdict for the plaintiff.

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