Planters Warehouse Co. v. McMekin

McMekin brought a suit in trover against Planters Warehouse Company, for the recovery of sixteen bales of cotton. The trial having resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant made a motion for a new trial, which the court overruled, and the movant excepted.

The plaintiff had stored the cotton in the defendant’s warehouse and had obtained from the defendant a loan of money thereon, and the plaintiff contended that the defendant’s subsequent sale of the cotton was made under circumstances rendering it a conversion. One of the principal issues of fact upon the trial was whether…