...bill or note indorsed in Uank or payable to bearer is not bound to look beyond the instrument, has no application to the case of a lost or stolen bill of ladla*, th. £1. — purpose and effect. By the usual oour»e of business in forwarding grain from...

...The function of that instrument is entirely different from a bill or note. It is not a representation of money used for transmission of money, or for the...purchases. It does not pass from hand to hand, as bank notes or coin. It is a contract for the performance of a duty. True, it is a symbol of ownership...

...bona fide purchaser of a lost or stolen bill or note is not bound to look beyond the instrument has no application to the case of a lost or stolen bill of lading. And that the purchaser of a bill of lading, who has reason to believe that his vendor was not the owner...

..."The function of that instrument is entirely different from a bill or note. It is not a representation of money used for transmission of money, or for the...or coin. It is a contract for the performance of a duty. True, it is a symbol of ownership of the goods covered by it — a representation of those goods....

...bill or note indorsed in Mink or payable to bearer is not bound to ¡"•k beyond the instrument, has no application to the case of a lost or stolen bill of lading Ib. 21. — purpose and effect. By the usual coarse of business in forwarding grain from U to В.,...

...hill or note indorsed In blank or payable to bearer, is not bound to look beyond the instrument, has no application to the case of a lost or stolen bill of lading; nor. It may therefore be added, to a lost or stolen warehouse receipt. Such, an Instrument performs...

...L. Ed. 892, 894, says: 'The function of that instrument [bill of lading] is entirely different from1 that of a bill or note. It is not a representative...for purchases. It does not pass from hand to hand as bank notes or coin. It Is a contract for the performance of a certain -duty. True, it is a symbol of...

...negotiable paper should govern in the case. But the court, per Strong, J., held otherwise, saying: "The reason can have no application to the case of a lost...for purchases. It does not pass from hand to hand as bank notes or coin. It is a contract for the performance of a certain duty. True, it is a symbol of...

...drafts, and in Peacock v. Rhodes, 2 Doug. 633, to bills and notes, as coming within the same reason. The reason can have no application to the case of a lost...that of a bill or note. It is not a representative of monej', used for transmission of money, or for the payment of debts or for purchases. It does not pass...

...whom he receives the same, the court continues : " The function of that instrument [a bill of lading] is entirely different from that of a bill or note. It is not a representative of money, App. Div.] Second Department,. October, 1909. used for transmission of money, or for the payment of...