Citizens Banking Co. v. Peacock & Carr
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint in trover. Before Judge Smitli. Dodge superior court. , March term, 1897. The Citizens Banking Company of Eastman brought its action against Peacock & Carr for the recovery of 67 bales of cotton, described in the petition, and alleged to be of the value of-$5,000, to which the plaintiff claimed title.
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Complaint in trover. Before Judge Smitli. Dodge superior court. , March term, 1897. The Citizens Banking Company of Eastman brought its action against Peacock & Carr for the recovery of 67 bales of cotton, described in the petition, and alleged to be of the value of-$5,000, to which the plaintiff claimed title. The defendants in their answer denied that the plaintiff had title to the cotton sued for, or such an interest therein as would entitle plaintiff to maintain an action for the recovery thereof. They alleged that it was the property of persons who deposited it in defendants’ warehouse,…
1Opinion of the CourtLittle, J.
The Citizens Banking Company of Eastman-brought an action against Peacock & Carr, warehousemen, for the recovery of sixty-seven bales of cotton, which were described in the petition, and of the alleged value of five thousand dollars. The trial resulted in a nonsuit, and to this judgment of the court, and other rulings made in the case, the plaintiff excepted.
1. The first exception is, that the court erred in refusing to-admit in evidence three warehouse receipts, which were offered by the plaintiff as showing title to three bales of the cotton sued for. These receipts, which were in the usual…
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