McWhorter & Armor v. Moore

The petition as amended alleged that the defendant, P. G. Moore, delivered to the plaintiffs, McWhorter & Armor, two bales of cotton for storage in their warehouse, and that the plaintiffs issued to him the usual warehouse receipt therefor. Several months afterwards the defendant returned to the warehouse and falsely represented that he had lost the receipt, and de*440manded the cotton. Acting on the representation that the defendant had lost the receipt, the plaintiffs delivered- to him the cotton. Between the time the cotton was bailed and the time it was redelivered to the bailor, he had sold…