Gresham v. Graves

Plaintiff brings this suit to recover of defendant the sum of $596.15, the value of four bales of cotton which, he alleges he had delivered to defendant, the four bales being represented by negotiable cotton warehouse tickets which he deposited with defendant as collateral security for a debt which he owed him, the tickets being numbered 12, 300, 12, 574, 13, 819, and 14, 001.

*154He alleges that on a date subsequent to that on which said tickets were pledged, he paid his indebtedness to defendant and demanded the return of the tickets, which was refused by defendant.

Defendant, in answer, denied…