Dixon-Rogers Trading Co. v. O. O. Scroggins & Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; G. W. Hendricks, Judge; STATEMENT OE EACTS. The Dixon-Bogers Trading Company sued 0. 0. Scroggins & Company to recover $2,158.35 alleged to be due it for the price of thirty bales of cotton.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; G. W. Hendricks, Judge; STATEMENT OE EACTS. The Dixon-Bogers Trading Company sued 0. 0. Scroggins & Company to recover $2,158.35 alleged to be due it for the price of thirty bales of cotton. The Dixon-Bogers Trading Company is a corporation engaged in the general mercantile business at Mansfield, Arkansas, and a part of the business of the corporation was buying and selling cotton. 0. 0. Scroggins & Company is a corporation doing business at Little Bock, Arkansas, as cotton buyers. On the 28th day of September, 1916, C. H. Dixon, as a…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts). It is the contention of counsel for the plaintiff that this case is governed by the principles of law decided in Townes & Sturdivant v. Edward Holland & Co. (Miss.), 77 Sb. 525. In that case the court held, that whether a sale of cotton on the seller’s gin platform was with the understanding that delivery was then complete, so that the cotton was thereafter at the buyer’s risk was under the evidence a question for the jury, although the seller was to ship and draw a draft with bill of- lading attached. There, as here, it was shown that it was the custom for…
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