Opinion ID: 1562287
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Heading: Claim for Elevators.

Text: This claim arises under the following facts: Two elevators were ordered from the Albro-Clem Elevator Company by the contractor. They were shipped under a bill of lading accompanied by a sight draft, which required payment before delivery. They passed from the control of the railroad and into the reservation under the situation heretofore described, and the draft was not paid. Whereupon the elevator company brought suit against the railroad for recovery of their value, and obtained judgment therefor. The railroad then paid the judgment, took an assignment therefor, and made this claim. It was allowed by the court, and such allowance is here assigned for error. We find no error in the court's action. It rightly regarded this as a claim made by the elevator company for materials furnished and used in the building. Just who placed them there, or how they got there, the testimony does not disclose; but that they were ordered by the contractor for use in the work, that they were shipped to the contractor and were subsequently found in place and use in the building for which they were ordered certainly, in the absence of any convincing countervailing proof, would have justified the allowance of the claim of the elevator company. By assignment the railroad now stands in its place. On the same grounds, we think the claim for cement furnished, which was also assigned to the railroad, was allowable; but, as we gather from the proceedings, this claim was conceded.