Somerville v. Gullett Gin Co.

This ^suit was brought by Somerville & Somerville, a firm of cotton planters, to recover damages from the Gullett Gin Company on account of the failure of certain cotton gins to work and gin plaintiffs’ crop, and plain*511tiffs sued for the amount alleged to have been lost by reason of delay and missing a favorable market. The trial judge, after excluding most of plaintiffs’ proof directed a verdict in favor of the defendants, and plaintiffs took tlie case to the Court of Civil Appeals. That court reversed the action of the trial judge and remanded the case for trial. Both parties filed petitions…