J. T. Fargason Co. v. Ball

The bill in the present case was brought to recover the value of 'seventy bales of cotton alleged to have been wrongfully converted by the defendants. The defense interposed was that W. M. Ball & Co. were cotton factors in the city of Memphis, that the cotton was shipped to them by one W. H. Barnes in his own name, was received by them in the regular course of their business for sale, was sold by them in the usual way, and the proceeds paid over in good faith to Barnes, their principal, all before they had any notice of complainant’s interest in the cotton. The evidence established *139the facts…