Collie v. Coleman

The question raised on this appeal is: Are tenants entitled to a refund from cotton ginned by a Cooperative Gin Company, organized under Act 153 of 1939, where a profit is shown and where the rent contracts contemplate no such payments. The tenants here seek to reverse a decree against them.

Appellee, Charles R. Coleman, controls and rents a large body of cotton land, part of which he owns and the rest he controls as trustee. He is also a stockholder in the Little River Cooperative Gin Company which was organized in 1946 pursuant to said Act 153, and which cooperative will be hereinafter…