Harlan Production Credit Ass'n v. Schroeder Elevator Co.

This is a law action by Harlan Production Credit Association, of Harlan, against Schroeder Elevator Company of Wall Lake to recover $1042, alleged value of 1198 bushels of corn on which plaintiff claims to hold a chattel mortgage. Trial was to the court without a jury. From judgment for defendant based on a finding there was insufficient proof the corn it purchased from the mortgagor was covered by plaintiff’s mortgage, plaintiff has appealed. We first refer to the evidence.

I. In 1959 Leslie Miller was a tenant farming the North Half of Section 19, Township 85, Bange 37, in Crawford County,…