Germania Bank v. Collins, Grayson & Co.

The Germania Bank sued Collins, Grayson & Company on an open account for a sum alleged to be due the bank as the purchase-money of 256 bales of hay, which the petition alleged was the property of the bank and was sold to the defendants by the bank’s agents, W. G. Cooper & Company. The defendants in their answer denied the alleged indebtedness, and denied that they had bought the hay from the bank. At the trial a motion for a nonsuit, on the ground that the evidence showed that the bank had only a special title to the hay, and that the general title was in W. G. Cooper & Company, was made by…