Exporters & Traders Compress & Warehouse Co. v. Steele

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

This suit originated in a justice court of Falls county. An appeal from the judgment of that court was taken to the district court of said county, where, on a trial before the court, judgment was rendered in favor of appellee, Annie Steele, a feme sole, against appellant, Exporters & Traders Compress & Warehouse Company, for the sum of $177.70.

Appellant maintained a warehouse in Marlin, Tex., in which it stored baled cotton for hire. The compress property was about 300 feet long from north to south. The space used for storing cotton occupied about 280 feet of the east…