Herring v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

On 13 October, 1922, between 9 and 9 :30 o’clock at night, the plaintiff, a cotton buyer, had 58 bales of cotton, for which he paid $5,909.97, burned. The cotton was on the defendant’s covered shed or platform, on which it received freight for shipment, in the town of Clinton. This cotton was sold on the morning of 13 October, to one J. B. Wilson, who lived at Warsaw, at 22% per pound, and it was to have been shipped to the purchaser the next morning, over defend ant’s road. The defendant, during the cotton season, permitted the official cotton-weigher for the town of Clinton to have scales…