43-18-109 - Liability of owner of gin or tobacco establishment for sale of product containing foreign objects. - Tennessee Statutes

43-18-109. Liability of owner of gin or tobacco establishment for sale of product containing foreign objects.

If any person sells or otherwise disposes of cotton or tobacco fraudulently packed with wood, iron, rocks, dirt or other substance, the person at whose gin or establishment the cotton or tobacco was put up is deemed guilty of negligence, and shall, upon suit on behalf of any subsequent purchaser of the cotton or tobacco, pay double the value of the cotton or tobacco as damages, and also the cost of reshipping the cotton or tobacco from the market where the fraud was detected.

[Acts 1859-1860, ch. 67, § 3; Shan., § 6742; Code 1932, § 11149; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 43-2011; Acts 1996, ch. 675, § 44.]