Texas Elevator & Compress Co. v. Mitchell

HOBBY, Judge.

The appellee T. B. Mitchell, who was plaintiff in the lower court, sued the Texas Elevator and Compress Company on the 17th day of January, 1884, to recover the value of 250 bales of cotton which he alleged had during the months of September and October, 1883, been delivered by him to defendant to be compressed, and when so compressed they Avere, he averred, to be returned to him upon the surrender by plaintiff of the receipts for said cotton Avhich had been executed by defendant therefor, together with the payment by plaintiff of the customary charges for storage and…