WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS. [ART. 14A

receipt is an accurate copy of an original receipt properly issued and
uncanceled at the date of the issue of the duplicate, but shall impose
upon him no other liability.

1910, ch. 406, sec. 16 (p. 50).

16. No title or right to the possession of the goods on the part of
the warehouseman, unless such title or right is derived directly or indi-
rectly from a transfer made by the depositor at the time of or subse-
quent to the deposit for storage, or from the warehouseman's lien, shall
excuse the warehouseman from liability for refusing to deliver the
goods according to the terms of the receipt.

1910, ch. 406. sec. 17 (p. 50).

17. If more than one person claims the title or possession of goods,
the warehouseman may, either as a defense to an action brought against
him for non-delivery of the goods, or as an original suit, whichever is
appropriate, require all known claimants to interplead.

1910, ch. 406, sec. 18 (p. 50).

18. If some one other than the depositor or person claiming under
him has a claim to the title or possession of the goods, and the ware-
houseman has information of such claim, the warehouseman shall be
excused from liability for refusing to deliver the goods, either to the
depositor or person claiming under him or to the adverse claimant,
until the warehouseman has had a reasonable time to ascertain the valid-
ity of the adverse claim, or to bring legal proceedings to compel all
claimants to interplead.

1910. ch. 406, sec. 19 (p. 50).

19. Except as provided in the two preceding sections and in sec-
tions 9 and 36, no right or title of a third person shall be a defense to
an action brought by the depositor or person claiming under him against
the warehouseman for failure to deliver the goods according to the terms
of the receipt.

1910. ch. 406, sec. 20 (p. 50).

20. A warehouseman shall be liable to the holder of a receipt for
damages caused by the non-existence of the goods or by the failure of the
goods to correspond with the description thereof in the receipt at the
time of its issue. If, however, the goods are described in a receipt
merely by a statement of marks or labels upon them, or upon packages
containing them, or by a statement that the goods are said to be goods
of a certain kind, or that the packages containing the goods are said to
contain goods of a certain kind, or by words of like purport, such state-
ments, if true, shall not make liable the warehouseman issuing the
receipt, although the goods are not of the kind which the marks or
labels upon them indicate, or of the kind they were said to be by the
depositor.