Gordon & Gomilla v. Wright & Clark

The opinion of the court was-delivered by •

Spencer, J.

Plaintiffs, a commercial firm of New Orleans, bring this -suit by attachment against defendants, a commercial firm of Jefferson, Texas, for $1629 41, with ñve per cent .interest from first March, 1872. They allege that in the latter part of 1871, and early in January, 1872, they consigned to the defendants for sale 500 barrels of flour, which defendants duly received. That defendants refuse and- neglect to account for a portion of said flour, by reason of its having, while in their warehouse at Jefferson, been destroyed by fire in the…