LOCKE COTTON MILLS CO. v. PATE COTTON CO.

No. 611.

59 S.E.2d 570 (1950)

232 N.C. 186

LOCKE COTTON MILLS CO. v. PATE COTTON CO.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 24, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brooks, McLendon, Brim & Holderness, Greensboro, and Hartsell & Hartsell, Concord, for plaintiff appellant.

Varser, McIntyre & Henry, Lumberton, for defendant appellee.


DEVIN, Justice.

The first two issues, which were not seriously controverted, established the fact that warehouse receipts belonging to the plaintiff and representing some $15,000 worth of cotton had been fraudulently converted by plaintiff's agent, and thereafter transferred to the defendant in discharge of the agent's personal liability to the defendant on an unpaid check. The controversy was fought out on the third issue whether the defendant acquired the warehouse...

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