Seldomridge v. Farmers & Merchants Bank

This is an action in replevin to recover a quantity of corn held by the defendant sheriff by virtue of a levy of a writ of attachment. The plaintiff prevailed, and the defendant appeals.

The evidence is meagre, but the record discloses that February 28, 1908, Clyde Merriman owned 2,000 bushels of shelled corn contained in several bins in his granary. Upon that date Merriman sold to the plaintiff 2,000 bushels of corn, "received a check for approximately one-half of the purchase price, and agreed to deliver the grain at the plaintiff’s elevator in Axtell. The same day Merriman sold in like…