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.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture
§ 43-18-101. Record to Be Made of Purchases of Seed Cotton, Loose or Unbaled Cotton, or Cotton Seed
§ 43-18-102. Written Permission to Sell Required — Exception
§ 43-18-103. Violation of § 43-18-101 or § 43-18-102 a Misdemeanor — Penalty
§ 43-18-106. Additional Penalty Recoverable in Qui Tam Action