Moody v. Stem

Baker, Chief Justice.

The appellant, plaintiff in the Circuit Court, alleges in his complaint that he deposited several piles of tobacco on the floor of the tobacco auction warehouse operated by the respondents, to be sold (presumably) according to the usual practice of tobacco auction markets, and that the auction fees charged to and collected from the appellant on each of two of the piles of tobacco exceeded by twenty-five cents the fees permitted by the statute prescribing the charges to be made by tobacco warehousemen. See Code 1942, Sec. 7197. On the basis of this overcharge, the…