Alice decides to set up a small agricultural store specializing in plants and animals common in the local area. Tracey, a cook, comes into the store looking for mushrooms. At the back of Alice's store are 10 small pots with mushrooms growing in them. Alice does not remember buying the plants, but sells them to Tracey anyway.

A week later, Alice remembers she agreed to store the pots for Trudy for a fee of $25. Two weeks after selling the mushroom pots to Tracey, Trudy comes looking for her mushroom plants that she had stored in the back of Alice's store. When Trudy asks Alice where the plants have gone, Alice explains she sold them to Tracey.What is the main legal issue? What is Alice's liability if the mushrooms were consumed while in the possession of Tracey?