Producers Livestock Marketing Ass'n v. Livingston

This is an action brought by the Producers Livestock Marketing Association, a Kansas corporation, with its headquarters at St. Joseph, Missouri, the plaintiff-appellant, to recover damages from the defendants-appellees R. B. Livingston and C. M. Livingston, a copartnership doing business as Livingston Bros., Ralph Warner, Monroe State Bank, of Monroe, Iowa, a corporation, and John Morrell & Company, a corporation, for the conversion of 83 head of steers.

The point to be determined upon this appeal relates to the correctness of the district court’s ruling on the motion of the appellee John…