Cash Crops Co-operative v. Green Giant Co.

By sec. 185.08 (5), Stats., a person (or corporation) who purchases products from a member of a co-operative association is bound by the member’s assignment of funds to the association, if certain formalities concerning filing of the assignment and notice to the purchaser are complied with. It is admitted in the present case that the company had notice of the duly filed agreement between the co-operative and the grower of peas, but the statute has no application unless the grower is a seller of the peas and the appellant company a purchaser. It was the view of the learned trial court that…