Gazzola v. Lacy Bros.

John Gazzola, a resident of Brinkley, Ark., during 1921 and 1922, shipped to Lacy Bros. & Kimball, cotton factors at Memphis, 207 bales of cotton to be held by the factors subject to Gazzola’s further orders.

Bills of lading were mailed by Gazzola to the factors, upon which bills of lading the factors secured possession of the cotton from the carriers and the factors then put all the cotton in a warehouse, taking out negotiable warehouse receipts in their own name. The Court of Appeals, finds, and no objection is taken to this finding, that the bills of lading were not used for any purpose…