Church Manufacturing Co. v. American Security Bank
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Benton county, Truax, J., entered August 29, 1923, in favor of the plaintiff, in an action to recover storage charges, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMackintosh, J.
The appellants, during the season 1921-1922, stored apples in the storage warehouse owned and operated hy the respondent, and the latter brought this action to recover the storage charges. The appellants’ answer does not deny the correctness of the amount of the charges, hut sets up a counterclaim for a loss which they claim to have sustained on. account of some of the apples having frozen while in storage.
The testimony shows that, when the apples were to be removed from storage for loading on cars to he delivered to a purchaser, it was discovered that some *576of the apples had been frozen, and…
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