Bank v. Hill, Fontaine & Co.

This is a controversy over the proceeds of seventy-seven bales of cotton, shipped by one Blake-more from his plantation in Arkansas to the defendants, Hill, Fontaine & Co., cotton factors in Memphis, in this State, to be sold on his account. This cotton, at the time of its shipment, was covered by a trust deed, made by the consignor for the purpose of securing the complainant in the payment of a debt, the larger part of which remains unpaid. This instrument was duly authenticated, and was placed of record in the proper public office in the county in that State where this property was then…