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FEDERAL COMPRESS & WRHSE. CO. v. REED

No. 48705.

339 So.2d 547 (1976)

FEDERAL COMPRESS & WAREHOUSE COMPANY v. Joe T. REED et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 19, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacobs, Griffith & Povall, Charles C. Jacobs, Jr., Cleveland, for appellant.

Hatcher & Westerfield, John L. Hatcher, Cleveland, for appellees.

Before GILLESPIE, C.J., and PATTERSON and WALKER, JJ.

GILLESPIE, Chief Justice, for the Court:

Joe T. Reed and Joe W. Reed, doing business as Reed Farms, sued Federal Compress & Warehouse Company (Compress) in the Circuit Court of Bolivar County. Judgment was entered in favor of Reed Farms after a jury trial, and Compress appealed.

Reed Farms stored about 250 bales of cotton in the warehouse operated by Compress. On October 21, 1972, a fire destroyed the cotton in one section of Compress' warehouse, including...

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