P.R. Laws tit. 10, § 400
Where a warehouseman delivers the goods to one who is not in fact lawfully entitled to the possession of them, the warehouseman shall be liable as for conversion to all having a right of property or possession in the goods if he delivered the goods otherwise than as authorized by subsections (b) and (c) of § 399 of this title and though he delivered the goods as authorized by said subdivisions he shall be so liable, if prior to such delivery he had either:
(a) Been requested, by or on behalf of the person lawfully entitled to a right of property or possession in the goods, not to make such delivery, or
(b) had information that the delivery about to be made was to one not lawfully entitled to the possession of the goods.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 10.