Motley v. Southern Finishing & Warehouse Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION for damages tried before Robinson, J., and a jury at January, 1898, Special Term of Guilford Superior Court. There was a verdict followed by judgment for the plaintiffs and defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Furches, J.:
Plaintiffs are tobacco dealers and defendant is a chartered warehouse company. Plaintiffs, at the solicitation of defendant deposited a quantity of leaf tobacco in defendant’s warehouse and took the following receipt therefor: ‘‘Greensboro, N. C., Oct. 16, 1894. Received in store from J. S. Cobb & Co., 73 hogsheads leaf tobacco, subject only to the order hereon of J. S. Cobb & Co. and the surrender of this receipt, and payment of charges. Southern Finishing & Warehouse Co., J. W. Lindau, Secretary.”
This tobacco remained in defendant’s warehouse until the first of June, 1895, when…
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