Farmers Rice Milling Co. v. Hope Rice Mill

TATE, Judge.

This is a suit by Farmers Rice Milling Company, Inc., the holder of a negotiable warehouse receipt, against Hope Rice Mill, the partnership-warehouseman who had issued the receipt, for the value of certain rice covered by said receipt, but which rice were not delivered by the warehouseman. (Hope’s partners were impleaded as defendants.) This suit was consolidated for trial with Orange Rice Milling Company v. Hope Rice Mill, La.App., 189 So.2d 64; Edmundson-Duhe Rice Mill v. Hope Rice Mill, La.App., 189 So.2d 70; and Estherwood Rice Mill, Inc. v. Hope Rice Mill, La.App., 189 So.2d…