Close v. Hodges
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Pipe-stone county, Perkins, J., presiding, refusing a new trial after verdict of $274.55 for plaintiffs.
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Appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Pipe-stone county, Perkins, J., presiding, refusing a new trial after verdict of $274.55 for plaintiffs. The description in the chattel mortgage -mentioned in the opinion is as follows: “All the crops now growing on the northeast ¿ 17-106-44, in Pipestone county, Minn., consisting of 57 acres of wheat, and 15 acres of oats, and 5 acres of corn, and 8 acres of flax;, all the said property being now in the possession of said first party in the town of Burke, county of Pipestone, and state aforesaid.”
1Opinion of the CourtYaNdeebuegh, J.
The plaintiffs seek to recover the value of certain grain, wheat, and flax, described in the complaint, and claimed by them, and which they allege had been wrongfully converted by the defendants. On the 31st day of May, 1888, one H. G-. Logan-executed a chattel mortgage to Close Bros. & Co., a firm including these plaintiffs, and to whose rights and property they have succeeded, upon all the crops growing “on the N. E. J — 17—106—44,” then in the possession of the mortgagor,, in the town of Burke, in Pipestone county, in this state, “consisting of 57 acres of wheat, 15 acres of oats, 5 acres…
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