Sanger v. Travis County Farmers Alliance

KEY, Associate Justice.

The appellants brought this suit against the appellees, who were doing a cotton yard and warehouse business under the name of the Travis County Farmers Alliance, for the value of twenty bales of cotton, alleged to have been stored in the appellees’ cotton yard at Austin, Texas, and not delivered to the appellants upon demand.

There was a jury trial, resulting in a verdict and judgment for the defendants, and the plaintiffs have appealed.

Among other things, thé court instructed the jury as follows: “The burden is upon the plaintiffs to establish all the facts necessary to…