Exporters' & Traders' Compress & Warehouse Co. v. Shaw

Appellee, D. R. Shaw, sued appellant, Exporters’ & Traders’ Compress &' Warehouse Company, to recover the value of nine bales of cotton in the sum of $900, with interest from December 1, 1920. This is a companion case to Exporters’ & Traders’ Compress & Warehouse Co. v. Hemphill (Tex. Civ. App.) 292 S. W. 599. The pleadings and evidence are substantially the same in both cases. Appellee alleged, in substance, that appellant theretofore had been engaged in compressing cotton; that, in addition to receiving cotton to be compressed, it also received and stored cotton for hire; that it thereby…