I agree with the observations of the Master of the Rolls in ex parte Reynolds in re Barnett, 15 Q.8.D., at page 191-"that the doctrine of reputed owner ship is a doctrine which ought in particular trades to be carefully watched, and ought not to be extended ; and the moment it is found that creditors ought not to rely upon the fact thafj goods are in the possession of their debtor,- the Court ought to be strict in saying that the property of one man shall not go to pay the debts of another." lii the present case it has been proved conclusively that a custom exists in the milling trade to sell flour to bakers for forward delivery, the payment for the flour being made in advance. The millers manufacture the flour to fulfil the contracts they have thus entered into. Bakers are, of course, a miller's principal cus tomers. A person, therefore, going on business into a mill, and seeing a quantity of flour, must be taken to know that the probability is that the greater part of it has been paid for. and that if the miller fulfils the obligations to be performed on his part he will deliver it in due course to the purchasers, although no particular quantity of flour may have been appropriated to any partjj cular purchaser. The quantity of flour in a mill is therefore no index whatever of the miller** position. Mr Moritzson, in his evidence, says that no one would give credit to a miller on thai strength of seeing a quantity of flour in his mill; and if the above custom exists, no reasonable person would do so. In such circumstances, very slight indications that flour in the possession of the miller does not belong to him but to somebody else should, in my opinion, be sufficient to prevent him being considered the reputed owner of it. If, as in the present case, the flour is placed in a heap by itself apart from the bulk of the miller's flour, and if each bag has a mark on it, which the miller's flour has not, it would be a reasonable inference, in view of the custom to sell for forw ird delivery and to pay in advance, that this particular flour had been paid for and had been appropriated to fulfil a particular order. 