Cameron Compress Co. v. Whitington

Whitington delivered to the compress company 98 bales of cotton, receiving from the company, for each bale, a receipt (reproduced in extenso in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, 268 S. W. 216, 217), which, in substance, declared the company had received the cotton for the purpose of “storage and compression” and that it would redeliver the cotton to the legal holder of the receipt (“or pay the market value thereof”), “loss by act of Providence or fire damage excepted (unless insured by this company)”; it being added that the “company is not a public weigher or warehouse.” Whitington…