Hodges v. Easton
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the ■ Eastern District of Wisconsin. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This was a suit by Easton and Bigelow against Hodges and Smith to recover damages for the alleged conversion of certain wheat, stored, in separate bins, in the warehouse of William H. Yalleau, in Decorah, Iowa.
The complaint contains two counts. The first proceeds upon the ground that the wheat, when so "converted, wastheproperty of the plaintiffs. The second avers that, during the" ■ winter and spring of 1876, the First National Bank of Deco-rah, Iowa, discocn+ed. notes' and drafts for, and loaned money to, said Yalleau, upon the security of a iarge quantity of wheat delivered to the bank, of…
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