Cowart & Dancer v. Bush

1. Where the owner of cotton placed it in storage with a warehouseman at an agreed or implied rate, “the charges on the cotton already stored could not be increased unless the party storing it consented expressly or impliedly thereto.” Bush v. Cowart, 30 Ga. App. 138 (117 S. E. 104); Montgomery v. Berry, 31 Ga. App. 701 (121 S. E. 853); Bush v. Cowart, 157 Ga. 746 (121 S. E. 687).(a) This is true notwithstanding the receipts issued for the cotton were negotiable and for this reason the warehouseman may have had no exact knowledge as to the ownership of the cotton at the time of the proposed,…