Butler-Kyser Manufacturing Co. v. Central of Georgia Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Coosa Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. S. L. Brewer. Detinue by the Butler-Kyser Manufacturing Company against the Central of Georgia Railway Company, for the recovery of certain cotton in specie, with claim thereto interposed by Weil Brothers. Judgment for claimants and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
Appellant sued appellee in detinue to recover 64 bales of cotton. Appellee railway company suggested Weil Bros, as claimants, who did interpose claims to the cotton sued for as is authorized *647by statute. — Code 1907, §§ 3778-3792. The trial resulted in a judgment for the claimants, from which judgment plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.
The cotton in question was bought from various farmers who raised it, by a mercantile firm at Kelly-ton, Ala., and sold by this firm to a bank at Alexander City, Ala., and by the bank sold to Weil Bros., claimants, at Montgomery, Ala., and was in the possession of…
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