Section 15. Warranties on negotiation of warehouse receipts.

A person who, for valuable consideration, negotiates a negotiable warehouse receipt by endorsement and delivery, including one who assigns for valuable consideration, a claim secured by a receipt, unless a contrary intention appears, warrants the following:-- (a) that the receipt is genuine; (b) that the person has a legal right to negotiate or transfer it; (c) that the person has no knowledge of any fact that would impair the validity of the receipt; (d) that the person has a right to transfer the title to the goods; and (e) that the goods are merchantable or fit for a particular purpose when those warranties would have been implied, if the contract of the parties had been to transfer without a receipt the goods represented by it.