Louisiana Cotton Cooperative Ass'n v. Futrell

DREW, Judge.

Plaintiff brought this suit to recover $908.49 alleged to be due it under the terms of a verbal agreement by which Mrs. H. T. Futrell sold 267 bales of cotton weighing 136,673 pounds to plaintiff. Plaintiff claimed that Mrs. Futrell guaranteed the weights and the grade of her cotton and that only 126,035 pounds was “tenable"' cotton, as a result of which plaintiff was entitled to recover the value of the difference, of 10,638 pounds at the rate of six and 77/100 cents per pound, the price paid for the cotton. This amounted to $720.19.

The Association also sought to recover the cost…