Helena Wholesale Grocery Co. v. Interstate Grocer Co.

There were two suits pending’ in the Phillips, circuit court, one by the Helena Wholesale Grocery Company and the other by the Helena Wholesale Dry Goods Company and Milan Wilkes, against Interstate Grocer Company. These suits were consolidated for trial, the parties waiving a jury, and the cases were tried by the court sitting as a jury.

The Helena Wholesale Grocery Company and the Helena Wholesale Dry Goods Company each sold to Wilkes under what they claimed to be a conditional sales contract, claiming that title was retained in the sellers. The Interstate Grocer Company had sold goods to…