Add to ORKGBailments - Carriers - Conversion - Trover by Bailee (A Common Carrier) Against a Third Person - On the facts as stated by the court of last resort it is often difficult to discover why any action should ever have been thought of, and impossible to see how the judgment of the trial court should have been in favor of the preposterous claim of the plaintiff. Such seems to be the case of Farmers\u27 Cotton Oil Co. v. Atlanta & St. A. B. Ry. Co. (Ala. I918), 79 So. 387. Plaintiff carrier by mistake delivered cotton seed to defendant company. Defendant by mistake, not even negligent mistake it would appear, received and used the cotton seed and paid the freight. The consignor and his vendee called off the sale, and defendant paid to the consigne...