Atwater v. Hannah & Co.

Atwater sued Hannah & Company, alleging in his petition, in substance, that the defendants were warehousemen and as such had received for plaintiff six bales of cotton, which they undertook, for a consideration, to safely keep and to deliver upon demand, but which they had faded to do, thereby becoming liable to plaintiff in a stated sum. It was further alleged that defendants, in order to induce custom, had inserted in the warehouse receipts the following: “ All cotton stored with us fully insured. Acts of Providence excepted.” It was averred that this statement was in the receipts given to…