Temple Cotton Oil Co. v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.

The Temple Cotton Oil Company, brought fourteen suits against the Southern Cotton Oil Company, in the circuit court of Miller County. These suits were consolidated, by order of the circuit court, and transferred to equity, over the objection of appellant.

Appellant owned and operated cottonseed-oil mills at' Little Rook, Arkadelphia, Hope and Ashdown, in Arkansas, and at these mills it crushed cottonseed and produced cottonseed oil, which it sold through brokers to cottonseed-oil refineries. Appellee owned and operated cottonseed-oil refineries, one of which was located at Gretna, in the State…