Love v. People's Compress Co.

The appellant is in charge of the liquidation of the Farmers’ Bank of Boyle, Miss., and brought this suit in *628the court below to recover from the People’s Compress Company, a corporation doing a warehouse business, the value of six bales of cotton stored with the Compress Company, for which it issued negotiable receipts, of which the bank became the holder for value without notice on December 4, 1920, which are now held by the appellant.

The appellee filed a special plea in bar by which it set up that the cotton was seized and taken from its possession by virtue of a writ of attachment issued…