Bank of Commerce & Trust Co. v. Brown Cotton Oil Co.

On Rehearing.

ROGERS, J.

The sole question on rehearing is whether the privilege of appellant Harrington is superior to the privilege of appellee Bank of Commerce & Trust Company on the cottonseed products sequestered herein. Appellant’s privilege is for four months’ salary amounting to $850 earned as an employee of the Brown Cotton Oil Company, Inc. Appellee’s privilege arises under negotiable warehouse receipts which it holds as pledgee to secure an indebtedness due by the Brown Cotton Oil Company, Inc.

Appellant admits that if the appellee bank had retained the original receipts his privilege…