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Mr. Hallett : It is entirely a matter of courtesy. I have done 

 that myself and seen it done hundreds of times. Of course, the 

 other firm would have to pay us the yardage and the freight, but 

 we never charge them commission. 



President Sykes : The question, as I understand it, is : Could 

 the shipper legally take those cattle out of your hands, if he paid 

 the charges, and turn them over to another firm? 



Mr. Hallett: Not unless he garnidied them. We would not 

 have to give them up unless we wanted to. 



Mr. Ames: Doesn't that clinch my argument absolutely? 



Mr. Hallett : In twenty-five years I have never known a case 

 where a drove of cattle were garnished. 



Mr. Wallace : Suppose I consign a carload of cattle to you, 

 you receive them ; I come in there before you sell them, and say 

 that I don't want to sell them; I want to take them back home. 

 Do I have to garnish them? 



]Mr. Hallett: I never knew of a case Avhere that was done. 



Mr. Ames: Don't lose the point now. Are you compelled to 

 give those cattle back to him? 



Mr. Hallett: At his request? I don't know exactly as to that;. 

 I doubt it. 



]Mr. Ames: I do, too. Don't you know that you don't have 

 to? 



Mr. Hallett : I never knew of a case where that was done. 

 But where a thing is consigned, I rather think it belongs to the 

 consignee. 



Mr. Wallace: Then you shouldn't say you are acting as agent; 

 you can't act as agent and owner both. 



Mr. Hallett : I am not in a position to discuss the legal ques- 

 tion. Mr. Ames says he never knew of a loss. If you will re- 

 member, we lost about 700 cattle in a fire in the Union Stock 

 Yards last Fourth of July. That was the reason this insurance 

 matter was brought up, but it didn't seem to meet with much 

 approval through the country, and I believe it was dropped en- 

 tirely. 



Mr. Ames : AVho paid tlie loss ? 



]\Ir. Hallett : The owners of the cattle ; they lost the cattle. 



