Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. v. Coleman

This is an appeal by the Federal Compress & Warehouse Company from a judgment rendered against it in the circuit court of Alcorn county for two hundred twenty dollars, the value of two bales of cotton alleged to have been stored by the appellee with the defendant company at Corinth, Miss., on November 1, 1925, and to have been destroyed by fire on November 12, 1925'.

The original declaration filed in this cause averred that the defendant was the successor of the Corinth Compress Company, and that, during the times complained of, it operated aj compress for the compressing of cotton at Corinth,…