Redd & Co. v. Lathem & Sons

In an action of bail-trover for the recovery of cotton, a description in the petition in the following terms is sufficiently certain to put the defendant on notice of what property is sued for and to withstand a general demurrer: “A certain lot of cotton consisting of five bales of cotton, described as follows, weighing 450$: more or less, each of the value of $337.50 dollars, the same being the five bales of cotton delivered to W. A. Lathem & Son [the defendants in the trover suit] by Henry McClure during the fall of 1920” (italics ours). See, in this connection, Nichols v. Hampton, 46 Ga.…