Northcutt v. Peoples Bonded Warehouse Co.

The plaintiff first sued for the breach of an alleged private contract between himself and the Peoples Bonded Warehouse Company. A new trial was granted for error in the exclusion of certain evidence. Northcutt v. Warehouse Co., 202 N. C., 657, 163 S. E., 747. Thereafter, the plaintiff recast his complaint, declared upon a verbal agreement dehors the receipts, and now seeks to recover against the Warehouse Company as a part of the State Warehouse System and also against the “indemnifying or guarantee fund” in the hands of the State Treasurer accumulated under chap. 168, Public Laws, 1919.…