Citizens' Bank v. Arkansas Compress & Warehouse Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; Jesse C. Hart, Chancellor; STATEMENT by the court. The Arkansas Compress & Warehouse Company is a corporation, and during the years 1902 and 1903 was carrying on business in Little Rock, Arkansas. During the cotton season of 1902-3 the Compress Company handled a large amount of cotton for different parties.
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Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; Jesse C. Hart, Chancellor; STATEMENT by the court. The Arkansas Compress & Warehouse Company is a corporation, and during the years 1902 and 1903 was carrying on business in Little Rock, Arkansas. During the cotton season of 1902-3 the Compress Company handled a large amount of cotton for different parties. Of the cotton which passed through the compress company’s hands during that season 8,000 bales were placed on the books as belonging to W. H. McMurray & Company, about the same number of bales were credited to Geo. M.' Miller & Co., and the Alphin-Lake…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick. J.,
(after stating the facts.) In this controversy three separate actions are involved. As these cases rest to a certain extent on the same facts, the parties consented that they should -be consolidated and heard together by the chancery court. Without discussing the propriety of this practice, we shall proceed to consider the questions raised by the- appeal-.
First, as to the action brought against the Compress Company by Miiller & Company to recover 82 bales of cotton and the action of McMurray & Company to recover 46 bales: The evidence shows that .the identical cotton owned by…
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- Flexner v. Meyer'sCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1921
- Weaver Cotton Co. v. Batesville Compress Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1925