Castellaw v. Taylor

There appears to be no substantial conflict in the testimony heard in the court below in the decision of this case in that court. The facts were as follows: Castellaw Brothers are merchants at Quitman, Arkansas, and are also engaged in buying cotton, which they sold at Conway, a city thirty-five miles distant from their place of business. The transaction out of which this litigation arose was similar to a number of others, and may be briefly related.

On November 20, 1930, Castellaw Brothers sent a truck, carrying six bales of cotton, from Quitman to be sold at Conway. An agent of Anderson…