Scroggin Farms Corp. v. Howell

This is an action by Scroggin Farms Corporation (hereinafter called Scroggin) to recover the value, above loan and storage charges, of certain cotton stored in Commodity Credit Corporation (hereinafter called Commodity) warehouses in 1938 and 1939. Assignments of the right to the cotton had originally been executed by defendants Gash and Bryant, who grew the cotton, and had after various successive reassignments come into Scroggin’s hands. In the latter part of 1940 Gash and Bryant assigned the same cotton rights a second time to defendant Howell, who in 1941 received the cotton from…