Lee v. Midwest Cold Storage & Ice Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This action has arisen out of an alleged breach of a warehouseman’s duty to exercise due care of certain raw skunk hides which plaintiff had placed in defendant’s cold-storage warehouse in Wyandotte county.

Defendants have brought the cause here for an intermediate appellate review of the trial court’s rulings on the pleadings.

In plaintiff’s petition it was alleged that he was a resident of Fort Scott and was engaged in the business of purchasing, processing, shipping and selling hides, furs and wool; that defendant, the Mid*877west Cold…