Labbitt v. Bunston

Appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant entered in an action in conversion. The subject matter of the action was approximately 175 tons of sugar beets raised in 1927 by one Hoffman on land leased from defendant and on which plaintiff held a chattel mortgage duly filed in the office of the clerk of Big Horn county.

In September, 1927, Hoffman notified both plaintiff and defendant that he could not go on under the lease. Each party attempted to take possession of and harvest the crop and the plaintiff foreclosed his mortgage on all of Hoffman’s stock and farm machinery and had the same sold…