Claypool v. Malta Standard Garage

This is an action in conversion to recover the reasonable value of 409 bushels and 40 pounds of wheat, alleged to have been converted by defendant, respondent here, on or about the seventh day of September, 1932. At the close of plaintiff’s case the court granted an order directing judgment of nonsuit, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

From the evidence introduced by plaintiff, appellant here, it appears that one George Jones had leased land to Emmett Claypool on a crop-division basis. Jones was to have two-thirds and Claypool one-third of the crops raised. The wheat in controversy was a…