context: Illinois courts distinguish bailments from conditional sales, which create only an ordinary debtor-creditor relationship.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 31 N.E.2d 585, 587
citation_a.parenthetical: bailment exists when goods are "disposed of in some particular manner as directed or agreed upon for [the owner's] benefit"
citation_a.sentence: See Chickering v. Bastress, 130 Ill. 206, 22 N.E. 542, 543 (1889) (“[W]hen the identical thing is to be restored in the same or an altered form, the contract is one of bailment ... but when there is no obligation to restore the specific article, and the receiver is at liberty to return another thing of equal value, or the money value ... it is a sale.”); see also People v. Moses, 375 Ill. 336, 31 N.E.2d 585, 587 (1940) (bailment exists when goods are “disposed of in some particular manner as directed or agreed upon for [the owner’s] benefit”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 22 N.E. 542, 543
citation_b.parenthetical: "[W]hen the identical thing is to be restored in the same or an altered form, the contract is one of bailment ... but when there is no obligation to restore the specific article, and the receiver is at liberty to return another thing of equal value, or the money value ... it is a sale."
citation_b.sentence: See Chickering v. Bastress, 130 Ill. 206, 22 N.E. 542, 543 (1889) (“[W]hen the identical thing is to be restored in the same or an altered form, the contract is one of bailment ... but when there is no obligation to restore the specific article, and the receiver is at liberty to return another thing of equal value, or the money value ... it is a sale.”); see also People v. Moses, 375 Ill. 336, 31 N.E.2d 585, 587 (1940) (bailment exists when goods are “disposed of in some particular manner as directed or agreed upon for [the owner’s] benefit”).