Exporters' & Traders' Compress & Warehouse Co. v. Schulze

Gus Schulze brought this suit against the Exporters' Traders' Compress Warehouse Company, and recovered a Judgment for $1,773.72 and interest, the value of certain cotton alleged by the plaintiff to have been converted by the defendant.

Appellant's brief contains numerous propositions relied on for reversal, many of which relate to the question hereafter dealt with in this opinion; the first being that in a suit to recover damages from a warehouseman for property destroyed by fire while in his possession, the plaintiff must both allege and prove negligence of the warehouseman. Counsel for…