Hattiesburg Compress Co. v. Johnson
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, second district, Perry county. Hon. John R. Enochs, Judge. Johnson, appellee, was plaintiff, and the compress company, appellant, defendant, in the court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor, awarding him the value of the property sued for at the time the suit was begun, defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the circuit court of, second district, Perry county. Hon. John R. Enochs, Judge. Johnson, appellee, was plaintiff, and the compress company, appellant, defendant, in the court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor, awarding him the value of the property sued for at the time the suit was begun, defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The court below wrongfully directed the jury to find for the plaintiff not only for twenty-six bales of cotton, but also to find its value at the time of the demand in 1900, when cotton was worth…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
The Hattiesburg Compress Company, a corporation, doing a compress and warehouse business at Hattiesburg, during the cotton season of 1897 — ’98 received of A. S. Johnson, a cotton broker at Meridian, Mississippi, a large quantity of cotton in bales all of which it delivered to Johnson during that season, *733except twenty-six bales, which, by some misfortune, were lost. It was well known in the spring and summer of 1898 to Johnson and to the compress company that twenty-six bales of said cotton were missing, and conferences were then had between Johnson and the president of the compress company…
2Cited by1 opinion
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