Interstate Compress Co. v. Agnew
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma; John H. Cotteral, Judge. Action at law by J. W. Agnew against the Interstate Compress Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
The defendant in error, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, instituted this action against the plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the Compress Company, to recover the value of 294 bales of cotton stored with the Compress Company, alleged to have been destroyed by fire by reason of the gross negligence of the Compress Company.
The answer admits the destructipn of the cotton while stored in its compress, but denies all allegations of negligence. As a further defense it pleads that, when the cotton was delivered to it, it executed and delivered to the…
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