Court Opinion

ID: 9827684
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:46:11.37074+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:34.459762
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
After due consideration of appellants’ motion for rehearing, we adhere to the conclusions expressed in our original opinion, and the motion must be refused.
In answer to appellants’ motion for rehearing, counsel for appellee complains of the statement in our original opinion to the effect that the contract sued on by appellee provides, “that all loose, (or waste) cotton accumulated in appellant’s'warehouse should, while appellee’s cotton was stored therein, be returned to appellee upon a pro rata basis with the other customers who might have cotton stored in the warehouse during the same time.” The complaint is that the contract does not contain the words “with other customers.” This is true. The contract simply -provides that “all loose cotton to be returned to you on a pro rata basis.” It is impossible for us to understand how the amount of the loose cotton could be returned, to ap-pellee on a pro rata basis, other than to give appellee his proportionate share of all the loose cotton which accumulated in the warehouse during the time appellee’s cotton was stored therein, and this is the obvious meaning and effect of the statement in our opinion. The opinion did not purport to quote the exact language of the contract, but to give its substance and effect, and we do not think we failed to do this.