Fries v. Anderson, Clayton & Co.

The second amended complaint in this matter alleges a class action, brought on behalf of the two named plaintiffs and all others similarly situated, who were cotton growers, against the defendant, which operated cotton gins, to declare it a constructive trustee of 40,000 tons of cottonseed obtained through ginning the plaintiffs’ seed cotton as their agent for which the defendant had not accounted. Seed cotton, which is cotton picked from the cotton plant, consists of cottonseed with the cotton lint attached thereto and incidental debris, such as other parts of the cotton plant, grass, weeds…