Legal Opinion
Dillard & Coffin Co. v. Beley Cotton Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 1923PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cook
delivered tlie opinion of the Court.
The Union & Planters’ Bank & Trust Company appealed from a decree awarding recovery for the value of cotton claimed by complainant. The parties to the transaction out of which the litigation arose were members of the Memphis Cotton Exchange, and chargeable with notice of its rules, customs, and practices. Beley Cotton Company bought by sample twenty-eight bales of cotton from Dillard & Coffin Company on June 15, 1923. It was then a prevailing custom among the cotton dealers of the locality to sell cotton for cash, and the sale to the Beley Cotton Company…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- National Bank of Commerce v. Chicago, Burlington & Northern RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
3Cited by5 opinions
- Edwards v. Central Motor CompanyTennessee Supreme Court · 1955
- John S. Hale & Co. v. Beley Cotton Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1927
- Edwards v. Central Motor Co.Court of Appeals of Tennessee · 1954
- Shillinglaw v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1938
- In re Smithdale Industries, Inc.District Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1963