American Cotton Co-Op. Ass'n v. Plainview Compress & Warehouse Co.

STOKES, Justice.

Appellant, a Delaware corporation, filed this suit in the district court against ap-pellees, the Plainview Compress & Ware- • house Company and Panhandle Compress & Warehouse Company, Texas corporations, for alleged negligence of appellees in handling 511 bales of cotton that had been stored in the compress and warehouse building located at Floydada. It was alleged the compress had ceased operation but the building and premises were being used and operated as a state bonded warehouse. The cotton was destroyed by fire on the night of October 31, 1933. The acts of negligence…