Benjamin-Ozburn Co. v. Morrow Transfer & Storage Co.

This case is here on exceptions to a judgment sustaining a general demurrer and dismissing the petition. The petition alleged, substantially, that the defendant was engaged in the business of common carrier and warehouseman; that the Southern Soda-Water Company was the owner of described personal property, of the value of $400, and employed the defendant *637to transfer this property and store the same in its warehouse; that the Southern Soda-Water Company was adjudicated a bankrupt, and the pláintiff bought the property from the trustee in bankruptcy, under an order of the bankruptcy court, and…