Vincent v. Rather

—This was a suit brought by the appellee, in the district court of Harris county, against the firm of Vincent & Owens, of which the appellant is surviving partner, who were warehousemen and commission merchants of the city of Houston, to recover the value of thirty-two bales of cotton, which appellant had forwarded to them from the interior (Bell county) for storage and sale, and which had been .lost by the burning of the warehouse in *83which it was stored. There is little, if any, controversy as to the facts of the transaction, and they are briefly, but substantially, these: The appellee, who…