Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Co. v. Wooten
Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Co. v. Wooten
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff in error filed its equitable petition for interpleader against Parker & Grogan, a firm of cotton factors of Augusta, Ga., against the Georgia & Florida Railway Company, and against W. E. Wooten, J. D. Wideman, W. R. Silver, and other individuals, and, in addition to the prayer that the parties be required to interplead, prayed for an injunction to restrain various trover suits instituted by the individuals against the plaintiff, and for a temporary receiver to take charge of sundry bales of cotton, for the recovery of which the trover suits had been instituted by several of the individual defendants named above. It was alleged in the petition that Parker & Grogan held bills of lading for the cotton, and that the Georgia & Florida Railway Company claimed a certain amount for freight on the cotton, while the individual defendants asserted title to the cotton. At the interlocutory hearing the court, upon the answers of the defendants and the evidence submitted by affidavits, ordered the temporary receiver to deliver the cotton to the attorney representing the individual
Judgment reversed.
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