Title 444, WAREHOUSES

Sec. 5. No person, firm or corporation, shall issue any elevator or warehouse certificates or receipts for any of the commodities mentioned in this chapter, unless such property is actually in the elevator or warehouse, or structure mentioned therein as the place where such commo…

Sec. 6. Any one injured by the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, may recover his actual damages sustained on account thereof.

Sec. 7. Any person who shall wilfully alter or destroy any register or certificate or receipt provided for in this chapter or issue any receipt or certificate without entering or preserving in such book the registered memorandum; or who shall knowingly issue any certificate or re…

Sec. 8. Nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting or preventing warehousemen from mingling in common bins, grains or beans or seeds of the same grade, issuing certificates or receipts therefor, and drawing out and shipping said grain, beans or seeds from said bins: Pr…

Sec. 9. Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect, interfere with or impair any rights of issuing and negotiation of any warehouse receipts or certificates under any existing law, or under any regulations of any chamber of commerce or board of trade within this state.

Sec. 1. That every person, firm, company, association, warehouse company or other corporation, lawfully engaged in the business of storing for hire goods, wares, merchandise, grain, flour, provisions, or other products, commodity or personal property, excepting persons or compani…

Sec. 10. No warehouseman shall issue any receipt or voucher for any personal property to any person, persons or corporation as security for any money loaned or for other indebtedness or indemnity, unless such property so receipted for shall be, at the time of issuing such receipt…

Sec. 13. Any warehouseman who shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this act, except as hereinafter provided for in section 27, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 2,000 dollars in amount or by i…

Sec. 23. Any warehouseman who has parted with his possession to stored property, through fraud or mistake, to any person not entitled to the possession of the same, may after demand maintain an action of replevin for the same, or, if the property cannot be found, an action of ass…

Sec. 24. Whenever any goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property shall be taken from the possession of any warehouseman, by writ of attachment or replevin, or other legal process, said warehouseman shall at once give written or printed notice thereof to the owner or per…

Sec. 25. No warehouseman shall be held responsible for any loss or damage to property by fire while in his custody, provided reasonable care and vigilance be exercised to protect and preserve the same.

Sec. 26. All persons owning property or who may be interested in the same by way of chattel mortgage, contract of sale, or where property has been sold on lease, when stored in any public warehouse, at all times during ordinary business hours, shall, on production of either the w…

Sec. 27. Any warehouseman who shall refuse any person the right to examine property stored in his warehouse and who shall not extend to such person or persons proper facilities for so doing, either by himself, his agents or employes, when such person or persons have a lawful righ…

Sec. 7. Every warehouseman shall keep a record book, in which shall be entered immediately upon its receipt, a description of all property deposited with him for storage, including the brand or distinguishing marks on such property, together with the date of the reception of said…

Sec. 9. No warehouseman shall issue any receipt or voucher for any goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property to any person or persons purporting to be the owner or owners thereof, unless such property shall have been actually received into store or upon the premises of…