Oktibbeha County Cotton Warehouse Co. v. J. C. Page & Co.

The appellees, J. C. Page & Co., filed their declaration in the circuit court of Oktibbeha county against the appellant, Oktibbeha County Cotton Warehouse Company, seeking to- recover the value of fifty-three bales of cotton, appellees’ property, destroyed by fire in the warehouse of the appellant on the morning of September 4, 1927. The fifty-three receipts issued by the warehouse company for the fifty-three bales of cotton to J. C. Page & Co. were attached to the declaration. The declaration sought to impose liability on the appellant warehouse company for the.loss, by fire, of the…