Cotton Growers Co-Operative Ass'n v. Bullock

When the defendant became a member of the cooperative association he owned two farms, the Lawrence Farm and the Hales Place, on each of which he cultivated cotton in 1922; but in 1923 only on the latter. In 1922 he sold on the open market 11,925 pounds of cotton and 3,375 pounds in 1923. This was admitted; whereupon the defendant, called as a witness in his own behalf, proposed to relate the conditions under which the cotton had been sold. If he had been permitted to do so, he would have said in effect that in 1922 and 1923 he found it necessary to borrow money to make his crops; that crop…