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DIXEY v. FEDERAL COMPRESS & WAREHOUSE CO.

No. 12714.

140 F.2d 820 (1944)

DIXEY et al. v. FEDERAL COMPRESS & WAREHOUSE CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

February 8, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Verne McMillen, of Little Rock, Ark. (St. Clair Adams, of New Orleans, La., on the brief), for appellants.

A. L. Barber, of Little Rock, Ark. (Barber, Henry & Thurman, of Little Rock, Ark., Waring, Walker & Cox, and Sam P. Walker, all of Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for appellees.

Before SANBORN and WOODROUGH, Circuit Judges, and MOORE, District Judge.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs were owners of cotton stored in the warehouse of the defendant Federal Compress and Warehouse Company under warehouse receipts issued in accordance with the requirements of the United States Warehouse Act, 7 U. S.C.A. § 241 et seq., and the cotton was destroyed by fire in the warehouse. The Pacific National Fire Insurance Company had issued its fire insurance policy to the warehouse company insuring the cotton against...

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