Kimbell Milling Co. v. Greene

SPEER, Justice.

A. S. Greene sued Joe F. Boothe, of Floyd County, Texas, and Kimbell Milling Company, a corporation, in a district court of Tarrant County, for the value of wheat alleged to have been converted by the defendants, during the year 1937.

Greene’s suit was based upon allegations that he and several other parties, whose claims had been assigned to him, stored wheat with Boothe during 1937, and that without the knowledge or consent of the owners, Boothe had sold or in some manner transferred said wheat to Kimbell Milling Company, to which company we shall refer as Kimbell.

The case was…