First State Bank of Altoona v. Chadwick

Essentially, these are the undisputed facts in this case: Appellee and one Scruggs were operating a cotton gin as general partners, using the firm name of Sneed Gin Company. In and as a part of said business they bought, from time to time, cotton, buying odd lots of seed cotton, or lint cotton, and in this way, at the time the matters here involved arose, having accumulated some five or six bales (for they ginned, and baled up, their said purchases) of said cotton.

Scruggs also bought and sold cotton during said time, on his own, individual, account, having an arrangement with appellant to…