Gordon & Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

Exception is taken to the award of a nonsuit. W. W. Gordon & Company brought a petition against the Atlantic Coast Line Bailroad Company, seeking to hold the company liable in trover for the conversion of one bale of cotton, marked “S. I. No. 14;” weighing 367 pounds, and alleged to be of the value of 39 cents per pound, which had been consigned to the petitioners at Savannah, Georgia, and a bill of lading for which had been received by them. It appears, from the evidence, that Gordon & Company are cotton factors, and that the cotton was consigned to them by a customer who had been indebted…