WILKINSON & CARROLL COTTON CO. v. CHICAGO, M. & G. R. CO.

No. 5146.

32 F.2d 553 (1929)

WILKINSON & CARROLL COTTON CO. v. CHICAGO, M. & G. R. CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

May 10, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. J. Leftwich, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn. (Wilson, Gates & Armstrong and Julian C. Wilson, all of Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for appellant.

Clinton H. McKay, of Memphis, Tenn. (Chas. N. Burch and H. D. Minor, both of Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for appellees.

Before DENISON, MOORMAN, and HICKS, Circuit Judges.


HICKS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, herein called plaintiff, sued appellees, herein called defendants, for damages for the destruction of 122 bales of cotton by fire in the compress and warehouse of Churchill Compress Company at Dyersburg, Tenn., October 11, 1922. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts. Each party moved for a directed verdict. Defendants' motion was sustained and a verdict directed accordingly. It followed, of course, that plaintiff's motion...

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