Ingram v. Watson

This is a detinue suit by V. H. Watson against Ingram & Co., a partnership composed of S. P. Ingram and A. W. Bell, for a bale of cotton, weighing 415 pounds, gin mark D. B., warehouse No. 42024. The defendants pleaded- general issue; jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and from a judgment thereon by the court, this appeal is prosecuted by the defendants.

The plaintiff and defendants claim title to the bale of cotton by separate mortgages both given by the same mortgagor, but under different names. Doll Bell and his wife executed to plaintiff a mortgage on his cotton crop for…