Hooper v. Farmers' Union Warehouse Co.

This action was originally brought by plaintiff against Farmers’ Union Warehouse, on February 2, 1922, claiming two bales of cottoix. On the trial the defendant warehouse interposed the following plea:

“Comes the Farmers’ Union Warehouse Company and for further answer to said complaint, says that at the time of the commencement of this suit the cotton sued for was stored in its said warehouse by R. L. Amos, a deputy sheriff of Marshall county, who had seized the same under a writ of attachment issued out of this court, in a suit between J. T. Broyles and G..G. Goggins; that, before the deposit…