Tallahatchie Compress & Storage Co. v. Hartshorn
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Leflore couhty. Hon. S. F. Davis, Judge. Action by Mrs. J. B. Hartshorn against the Tallahatchie Compress & Storage Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The warehouse receipt in this case is the written contract and the sole evidence of the contract, and affirmatively exempts the defendant from liability for fire. The adjudications are not altogether clear as to the legal effect of a warehouseman’s receipt.
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Appeal from circuit court of Leflore couhty. Hon. S. F. Davis, Judge. Action by Mrs. J. B. Hartshorn against the Tallahatchie Compress & Storage Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The warehouse receipt in this case is the written contract and the sole evidence of the contract, and affirmatively exempts the defendant from liability for fire. The adjudications are not altogether clear as to the legal effect of a warehouseman’s receipt. By statute in many states, and especially in Mississippi (sec. 2295, Code of 1906), a warehouse receipt is made conclusive evidence in the…
1Opinion of the CourtSykes, J.
The appellee, Mrs. Hartshorn, plaintiff in the circuit court, sued the appellant compress company for the value *672of seventy-four bales of cotton destroyed by fire. Tbe declaration contained three counts. The first count alleged that the defendant had agreed with plaintiff to store her cotton in the brick compartment of the defendant’s warehouse, and breached this agreement and stored the cotton in the wooden compartment, and that while the cotton was in the wooden compartment it was totally destroyed by fire. The second count alleged that plaintiff had been a customer of the defendant for…
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