Schmitt v. Federal Compress & Warehouse Co.

Appellee Federal Compress & Warehouse Company filed its bill of interpleader in the chancery court of Sunflower county against appellees Cohn Bros., a partnership composed of Samuel and Louis Cohn, and their tenants, J. B. and IT. T. Crow, and appellants Andrew Schmitt and J. M. Watkins, cotton buyers, asking a decree of the court adjudicating who had the superior right to three bales of cotton stored with it on which Cohn Bros, claimed a landlord’s and also a chattel mortgage lien for an indebtedness due them by their tenants, the Crows, and to which cotton appellants, Schmitt and Watkins,…