Cameron Compress Co. v. Jacobs

McCLBNDON, o. j.

Suit by Jacobs against the compress company for the agreed value of cotton destroyed while in possession of the ■compress company as bailee, under warehouse receipts issued by the compress company in favor of Jacobs. Trial to jury; special issue verdict; judgment for Jacobs; appeal by the compress company.

The fire causing the injury was the same as in Whittington v. Compress Co., reversed by this court, 268 S. W. 216, and reversal affirmed on recommendation of the Commission of Appeals. Cameron Compress Co. v. Whittington, 280 S. W. 527. A number of the questions presented in…