J. A. Baskin, as administrator of the estate of M. T. Baskin, deceased, brought a trover action against W. L. Stead-man, a warehouseman, to recover three described bales of cotton *37for which he had issued his receipt to Baskin. The evidence showed a demand by the plaintiff for the cotton. There was in evidence the following letter written by the defendant to the attorney for the plaintiff before the filing of the suit: “The three bales of cotton which are writing about we delivered to Mr. B. T. Bank truck from our warehouse at Temple, Georgia. We hope this explintion [explanation] is satisfactory.” The evidence disclosed that the defendant told the plaintiff there was no cotton there; and that he had the receipts with him and offered to pay the storage on the cotton. . At the trial the defendant admitted possession of two of the bales and claimed that there had been a delivery of the other to the brother of the plaintiff. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff.
Under the rulings stated in the headnotes, the court did not err in overruling the motion for new trial.