Cotton Finance & Trading Corp. v. Henderson

T. B. Henderson sued Cotton Finance & Trading Corporation, a corporation, asking judgment for $700, the value of 6% bales of cotton, alleged to have been wrongfully taken and converted by said corporation. The facts alleged as the basis of Henderson’s suit are substantially as follows: About the 19th of March, 1925, Hugh M. Walker was the owner of certain lands described in Hudspeth county. On that day Walker, joined by J. B. Paden, executed a lease of the land to E. R. Hamilton for a term beginning March 1, 1925, and ending with December of that year. By the terms of the lease Hamilton…