Millichamp v. First National Bank

The only question involved here is whether the respondent is liable for certain warehouse storage charges.

L. D. McCain and E. H. Burlingame were the owners of certain potatoes. They, were stored in the ware*176house of the appellant, who issued the usual negotiable warehouse receipt in the name of Burlingame. At the time of making the storage, McCain was indebted to the respondent, which indebtedness was secured by a chattel mortgage on the crops to be grown on the lands from which the potatoes in question were taken. After the potatoes were stored, the bank asked McCain to deliver the warehouse…