Lawrence Warehouse Company v. Ellis Nasif. Ellis Nasif v. Lawrence Warehouse Company

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought against defendant as a public warehouseman doing business in Mississippi, the suit, based in part on warehouse receipts issued by defendant and in part on the claimed receipt by it of goods for which it had issued no receipts, was for the value of goods not accounted for and for actual and punitive damages.

The defenses were a general denial of plaintiff’s charges and a claim that all of the goods which it had received from plaintiff had been fully accounted for to him or to his representatives.

Tried to the court without a jury, there were findings of fact and a…