NYTCO Services, Inc. v. Wilson

This is a consolidated appeal by NYTCO Services, Inc. (NYTCO) and J.E. McDonald from judgments rendered by a jury in favor of eighty-two plaintiffs joined under Rule 20, ARCP.

In 1972 N.Y.TCO, formerly New York Terminal Warehouse Company, Inc., entered into a field warehousing lease agreement with Covington Grain Company, Inc. (Covington Grain) in Andalusia, Alabama under which NYTCO leased a bagged goods warehouse and five outside storage bins (silos). The bagged goods warehouse, a portion of which was used as Covington Grain's office, had a storage capacity of 15,000 bushels of grain and the…