Claybrooke Warehouse & Gin Co. v. Farmers Cooperative Warehouse & Gin Co.

STAKELY, Justice.

This is a suit for the conversion of cotton seed during the month of December 1950. The defendant filed a plea of the general issue. There was verdict and judgment for the plaintiff and hence this appeal.

The only witnesses in the case were the two witnesses put on the stand by the plaintiff. The first witness for the plaintiff was E. B. Jenkins. His testimony was in substance as follows. He was the manager of the plaintiff and familiar with their transactions. In December of 1950 or January 1951, he discovered that there was cotton seed missing from the Smith Institute Gin in…