Fanucchi v. Coberly-West Co.

This action was brought by 18 plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and all other growers similarly situated, against a ginning company and its agents, to recover for a portion of the cottonseed derived from cotton delivered by the growers to the defendants over a period of years, for the purpose of ginning and processing the cotton and accounting for the proceeds. After separating the cotton lint from the cotton seed in each grower’s cotton, the defendants weighed each grower’s lint and accounted therefor. However, each grower’s cottonseed was not separately weighed, but the seed coming from…