Tuttle & Wakefield v. Exchange Bank

Lumpkin, Justice.

Cheeves was engaged at Fort Valley in the business of buying cotton, not for himself, but for others. He *654had made an arrangement with the Exchange Bank of that place by which the bank was to pay for such cot-toil as he might purchase upon orders received from his customers, upon the express contract that the title to the same should be in the bank until it was reimbursed for the purchase money so advanced. In pursuance of •this contract, the warehouse receipts, which controlled ■the possession, were to be delivered to the bank in every instance before it furnished the money…