36 Ga. App. 57 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1926
In Dudley v. Isler, 21 Ga. App. 615 (94 S. E. 827), this court said: “‘To maintain an action of trover, the plaintiff must show title in himself, or the right of possession wrongfully withheld from him by the defendant.' Grover v. Iler, 1 Ga. App. 77 (57 S. E. 906); Gilmore v. Watson, 23 Ga. 63; Palmour v. Durham Fertilizer Co., 97 Ga. 244 (22 S. E. 931); Where a sale is relied upon by one as vendee thereunder, and it appears that possession is retained by the vendor, ‘ something more than the parol agreement of sale relating to the transfer of the title and the possession is necessary to constitute constructive delivery. The statute requires something more than mere words; it calls for acts, to dispense with a writing. It must appear that
Accordingly, where in a trover suit the plaintiff testified that he as landlord, without receiving actual physical possession thereof, had accepted a bale of cotton grown on the rented premises, in settlement of advances made to the tenant for the current year,' and had told him to “take the bale of cotton to Menlo and sell it for me,” and to “sell this bale of cotton and bring me the check,” such an assertion of dominion over the goods by the vendee, although the act to be done was to be effected by the vendor as the agent of the vendee, was sufficient to evidence constructive delivery; and where the vendor in such case, acting as such agent of the vendee, sells the cotton as directed by the vendee, and the person to whom it is thus subsequently sold refuses to account to the original vendee for the proceeds, on account of a debt owing by the tenant to such last purchaser, such subsequent vendee is liable in trover to the original vendee, upon proof of these facts. Weller v. Ellis, 65 Ga. 744. The original vendee, as plaintiff in trover, having sworn to the state of facts indicated above, it was error in the trial judge to grant a nonsuit..
Judgment reversed.
