Legal Opinion
Oyens Feed & Supply, Inc. v. Primebank
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 30, 2011No. 11-0532PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATERMAN, Justice.
We are asked to interpret an Iowa statute enacted in the depths of the 1980s farm crisis to help debt-laden farmers buy livestock feed on credit to continue operations. Our answer is sought to resolve a dispute between two creditors in a bankruptcy proceeding with competing liens on the same hogs. A hog producer with outstanding loans to Primebank went deeper into debt by purchasing feed on credit from Oyens Feed & Supply to fatten the hogs to market weight. We answer a certified question from the federal district court by holding Primebank’s prior perfected security…
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- State v. OsmundsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1996
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