Graham v. Hendricks

The plaintiffs alleged that on the twentieth day oi December, 1862, the defendant sold sixty bales of cotton to the commercial firm of Simpson & Calhounj that on the twenty-third of February, 1863, the said firm sold and transferred the said cotton to the Southern Railroad Company, a corporation duly chartered under the laws of the State of Mississippi, and that on the seventh of April, 1865, the Southern Railroad Company sold the cotton to the plaintiffs. They alleged that the defendant refused to deliver the cotton, and they prayed for a judgment for the same, or its value.

The defendant…