Shingleur-Johnson & Co. v. Canton Cotton Warehouse Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Madison county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. Shingleur, etc., Co., appellant, was the plaintiff, and the Canton, etc., Co., appellee, defendant in the court below. The opinion states the case.
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From the circuit court of Madison county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. Shingleur, etc., Co., appellant, was the plaintiff, and the Canton, etc., Co., appellee, defendant in the court below. The opinion states the case. The appellee had no statutory lien under § 2862, code 1892. It is true this court has held in the case of Irvin v. Miller, 72 Miss., 174, that the ginner had a statutory lien under said section to secure him for £ £ preparing the crop for market, ’ ’ because it was perfectly clear he helped to prepare the crop fomarket, cotton not ginned and properly baled not being pre pared for…
1Opinion of the Court
Terral, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court..
The appellant sued the appellee in replevin for fifty-nine bales of cotton, and before suit brought demanded the delivery of the same, and offered to the warehouse company all storage and other charges thereon, amounting to $124.55, upon said cotton. The warehouse company refused the delivery of the cotton unless appellant would pay it the storage and other charges on seventy-nine bales of cotton previously delivered by appellee to appellant, amounting to $162.89. For some reason appellant declined to pay the charges on the previous bailments. It…
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