Burke v. Boulder Milling & Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 14 state decisions

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1. “The understanding was that there was to be no sale until such time as plaintiff demanded a price satisfactory to the mill. If that condition did not arise (and plaintiff had it in his power to see that it did not) the mill was obliged to return the wheat. `If the owner of goods deliver them to another with the understanding that there is to be no sale until the happening of a certain condition, this is a bailment, and the title does not pass until and unless the condition happens.' Furst v. Commercial Bank , 117 Ga. 472 , 475 , 43 S.W. [sic] 728. . . . He might so fix the price as to compel return of the wheat; hence his right, under the admitted facts, to force the return of the grain was absolute, and under all the authorities this was no sale but a bailment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 351 So. 2d 875 - NYTCO Services, Inc. v. Wilson

2. ““A debt means a fixed and certain obligation to pay money or some other valuable thing or things either in the present or in the future.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Higa v. Mirikitani