Farmers Union Warehouse Co. v. Hollis

Hollis, the plaintiff, was a cotton ginner, and the Farmers Union Warehouse Company was a cotton-warehouse corporation. A verbal contract was made between them by which Hollis agreed to deliver to the warehouse company, all cotton ginned by him, the company agreeing to collect for him the ginning charges when the customers of the warehouse took their cotton out. The suit was for -the amount claimed by him as due on cotton which he had ginned and delivered to. the warehouse, and which the warehouse company had delivered to its customers without collecting the ginning charges. The jury returned…