Mitchell v. Oklahoma Cotton Growers Ass'n.

This suit was instituted in the district court of Oklahoma county on the 25th day of October, 1923, by the Oklahoma Cotton Growers Association et al. against W. O. Mitchell et al.

The petition of the plaintiffs in the lower court alleged, in’ substance, 'that they were the owners and insurers of 1,724 bales of lint cotton, which had been previously located on the platform of the Traders Compress Company in Oklahoma City; that on the 16th day of October, 1923, and a long time prior thereto, heavy rains had fallen along the source of the North Canadian river, extending from the west to the east…