Countrywide Trucking Inc. contracts with Dewey to transport crated goods to a certain destination for $5,000. Countrywide delivers the crates, but Dewey does not pay. Countrywide learns that the crates contained stolen goods. Countrywide can recover from Dewey

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Countrywide Trucking Inc. contracts with Dewey to transport crated goods to a certain destination for $5,000. Countrywide delivers the crates, but Dewey does not pay. Countrywide learns that the crates contained stolen goods. Countrywide can recover from Dewey​

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Even though the goods were stolen, Countrywide Trucking Inc. fulfilled its part of the contract by delivering the crates to the specified destination, hence it is entitled to the agreed-upon payment of $5,000. However, it may not be able to recover the stolen goods as they may have to be returned to their rightful owners.