Citizens' Nat. Bank of Brownwood v. Texas Compress Co.

* Writ of error pending. The parties to this appeal, Citizens' National Bank of Brownwood, and the Texas Compress Company, will be referred to, respectively, as the bank and the compress. The appeal is from a judgment upon a directed verdict in favor of the compress, in an action brought by the bank to recover the value of 53 bales of concentration cotton. The compress had held the cotton under warehouse receipts which we will refer to as cotton tickets issued to Richardson Co. and had later delivered the cotton to a railroad company under shipping instructions furnished by W. L. Ellis. The…