Luby v. Bell

In the early fall of 1914 three bales of cotton were deposited in the warehouse of the Corpus Christi Warehouse Company, a public warehouse operating under the provisions of the public warehouse acts embraced in chapter 37. Acts 1st Called Session, 33d Legislature, 1913 (title 131, Vernon's Sayles' Civ. Stat. 1914). The cotton had been grown on the farm of R. F. White by James P. Luby, a tenant, and was placed in the warehouse in the name of one Rafael Garcia, to whom negotiable warehouse receipts were issued by the warehouseman in the prescribed form. Shortly afterwards the three bales were…