White v. . Boyd

The defendants, Boyd Young, owned a tobacco warehouse at Enfield, and were engaged in the business of selling leaf tobacco there on commission. Their auctioneer would sell the tobacco on the floor — they would pay the farmer, and hold the tobacco until paid for by the purchaser. The farmer, if dissatisfied with the bid offered, could reject it.

J. M. Crowder was the cropper of the plaintiff, Mary A. White, in 1897. Without her knowledge and consent he carried a lot of tobacco raised that year to the warehouse of the defendants, where it was sold, and he received the money. On this lot of…