Property  in  goods  may  be  followed  and  claimed  from  a  Following
receiver,  though  he  received  possession  without  notice  of  a  wrongfully
defect  of  title ;  and  if  the  goods  have  been  converted  by  him  oiitiimed.
the  rightful  owner  may  claim  the  proceeds  as  money  received
to  his  use  (r)  :  as  where  an  agent  holding  a  postal  order  for
his  priacipal  paid  it  in  to  his  own  account  at  his  banker,  who
converted  it  into  money  with  which  he  credited  the  account.
(k)  Fowell  V.  Sees,  7  A.  &  E.  426
He  United  Merthyr  Co.,  L.  B.  15  Eq.
46  ;  J'egon  v.  Vivian,  L.  R.  6  Ch.  742
40  L.  J.  C.  389  ;  Phillips  v.  Eomfray.
L.  B.  6  Ch.  770 ;  59  L.  J.  C.  547


(n)  Brewer  v.  Sparrow,  7  B.  &  C.
310  ;  Lythgoe  v.  Vernon,  5  H.  &  N.
180  ;  29  L.  J.  Ex.  164  ;  see  Wihon  t.
T.  Foulter,  2  Strange,  859  ;  Burn  v.
Morris,  2  C.  &  M.  679.
Ashton  V.  Stock,  L.  E.  6  C.  D.  719.  (o)  Smith  v.  Baker,  L.  B.  8  0.  P.
[1)  Coleridge,  J., -OaZtowT.  Whittem,       350  ;  42  L.  J.  C.  P.  155.
3  Q.  B.  966.  [p)  Valpy  v.  Sanders,  5  0.  B.  886.
(m)  Malins,  V.-C,  Morgan  v.  El-  (q)  Stmterv.  Frinsep,Wlii!ist,S1S;

ford,  L.  B.  4  C.  D.  352.  see  ante,  p.  51.
(r)  Glyn  v.  Baker,  13  East,  609,


76  CONTRACTS  IMPLIED  IN  LAW.
Part  I.    it  was  hold  that  the  principal,  as  being  the  rightful  owner  of
the  order,  might  recover  the  proceeds  from  the  banker  («).
