Panhandle Compress & Warehouse Co. v. Borum

MARTIN, Justice.

Appellant was a public warehouseman in the town of Floydada. It received from and stored for appellee IS bales of cotton. All were subsequently destroyed by fire. Appellee brought suit for their value, alleging their negligent destruction. He pleaded in part:

“That during the fall of 1933, and prior to and up to the time of the destruction of said warehouse by fire, while said defendant did not maintain any person at said warehouse to receive cotton during the nighttime, said defendant permitted and authorized any person who might so desire, to deliver and unload cotton into…