Bolivar Compress Co. v. Mallett

Appellee, J. L. Mallett, recovered a judgment in the Second district of the circuit court of Bolivar county against appellants Bolivar Compress Company and others, from -which judgment appellants prosecute this appeal.

The action was for a conversion by appellants of certain cotton on, which Mrs. Susie Wheatley had a landlord’s lien for unpaid rent. The appellee brought the action in the name of Mrs. Susie Wheatley. It developed on the trial that Mrs. Wheatley before the action was brought had transferred and assigned in writing to appellee her entire interest in the claim which was the basis…