Nash v. Brewster
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Grant county, to recover for the alleged conversion of wheat by the defendant. After trial before C. L. Brown, J., and a jury, and verdict for plaintiff, the court, being of the opinion that the case is controlled by Kelly v. Seely, 27 Minn. 385, granted a new trial, from which order the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The seed-grain note described in the complaint, upon which a recovery is sought by the plaintiff, contains the requisite statutory provisions, and was filed in the proper office on the day of its date. Lovejoy, the maker of it, occupied the premises therein described under a lease from the owner, one Toombs, and bought the wheat to sow thereon. He actually and in good faith purchased the 200 bushels mentioned, at 75 cents per bushel, and the evidence tends to show that he sowed 120 bushels of the same upon the land upon which the crop in dispute was raised, and of the balance he exchanged,…
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- Chapman v. ShepardSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1872
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