Prairie Flour Mill Co. v. Farmers Elevator Co.

The plaintiff, respondent, brought this action in conversion as assignee of a warehouse receipt issued by the defendant Ferdinand Rochdale Company to one Phoebe Snyder, and by her sold and assigned to RiggsMikkelson Grain Company, and alleged to have been by the latter, with all its right, title, claim and interest in said wheat, assigned to plaintiff.

The complaint alleges that Farmers Elevator Company, a corporation, was created “for the purpose of reorganizing and taking over the assets of the Ferdinand Rochdale Company, and assuming its liabilities,” and that it “did take over the assets…