Toyo Cotton Co. v. Cotton Concentration Co.

GREENHILL, Justice.

The common question in these three suits for declaratory judgment is whether the plaintiffs Toyo Cotton Company et al. are liable to the defendant Cotton Concentration Company, Inc., for storage charges on plaintiffs’ cotton during the period in question. The cotton was stored under an agreement, called a tariff, on a per day charge. At the time when the plaintiffs requested their cotton removed from storage to be shipped overseas, they tendered the amount due for storage up to such time; but the defendant storage company could not deliver the cotton because of a strike…