O. B. Crittenden & Co. v. North British & Mercantile Ins. Co. of London

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought in the court below on April 30, 1927, by the appellee, an insurance company, against the Greenville Compress Company and any and all persons having or claiming any interest in approximately 28,000 hales of cotton referred to in the bill or in outstanding negotiable warehouse receipts issued for that cotton. The hill contained allegations to the following effect:

The Greenville Compress Company operates at Greenville, Miss., a bonded warehouse under the United States Warehouse Act (7 USCA § 241 et seq.), and in the conduct of that business had stored…