Commercial State Bank v. Palmerton-Moore Grain Co.

This is an action to recover for failure to redeliver certain wheat stored with the defendant Palmerton-Moore Grain Company, Inc., and represented by its negotiable warehouse receipts duly issued therefor. The grain company having given a statutory warehouseman’s bond, the surety on the bond is also made a party defendant.

A trial was had to the court, sitting without a jury, resulting in findings favorable to the plaintiff, and in a judgment thereon against both defendants for $4,000, the full penalty of the bond, and a further judgment against the grain company for $1,000 and interest, the…