Whittington v. Cameron Compress Co.

On Motion for Rehearing.

Both parties filed motions for rehearing on our original opinion herein. We wrote briefly on those motions on January 23, 1924. Thereupon appellant filed a second motion for rehearing, and appellee filed a motion to certify two of the issues involved in the case to the Supreme Court. Since we had followed the former opinion of this court in Exporters’ & Traders’ Compress & Ware-house Co. v. Schulze, 253 S. W, 702, in holding that, where the compress company failed to redeliver the cotton upon demand, the burden of proof was upon it to show that it was not negligent,…