Moore & Co. v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. Lewis Wyeth. The appellee, Robinson, commenced tbis action by attachment against the appellants, Moore & Co., to recover of them the sum of $1,500, proceeds of seventeen bales of cotton, the property of plaintiff, which defendants sold as the property of one Carter, applying the proceeds to the satisfaction of a debt Carter owed them.
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Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. Lewis Wyeth. The appellee, Robinson, commenced tbis action by attachment against the appellants, Moore & Co., to recover of them the sum of $1,500, proceeds of seventeen bales of cotton, the property of plaintiff, which defendants sold as the property of one Carter, applying the proceeds to the satisfaction of a debt Carter owed them. The defendants pleaded — 1. “Not guilty.” 2. “That the cotton, for the price of which said plaintiff sues, was consigned to them through their agents as the property of one William J. Carter; that their said…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The appellants were cotton commission merchants, haviDg two places of business, one in New York, and one in Cincinnati They did business in each city in the same firm name, Robert Moore & Co., composed of the same *541partners. The appellee, Robinson, owned seventeen bales of cotton, which were at the Scottsboro depot, on the Memphis and Charleston railroad, for shipment. Carter was a cotton buyer, operating at Scottsboro, and had been engaged in buying cotton, and shipping it to the Cincinnati house for sale. He was indebted to them for a balance on the transactions of the preceding year.…
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