Supreme Court of North Carolina October 5, 1881 (Gwyn v. Richmond & Danville R. R.)

Smith, 0. J.

On March 10th, 1880, J. P, Harper, one of the plaintiffs, acting for the plaintiff firm, bought from Mc-Auley & Meacham, at Charlotte, forty-nine bales of cottou of which twenty were then in possession of their agents, Neely ■& Bro., at Linwood, on the line of the defendant’s road, and paid for the same. By direction of the vendors, Neely & Bro.