Jonesboro Compress Co. v. Hall

Separate complaints were -filed by W. A. Hall and fifty-five other persons against the Jonesboro Compress 'Company to- recover the value of certain cotton stored -by the plaintiffs in the warehouse of defendant, in the city of Jonesboro. These oases were consolidated and tried together. A stipulation covered the value of the cotton, and that question was not -submitted to the jury. There was a verdict in favor of all the plaintiffs, and judgment accordingly, from which is this appeal.

The cotton was destroyed by a fire which was -discovered about no.on December 8,1927, and the complaints filed…