Lundberg v. Northwestern Elevator Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action brought in the district court for Grant county for the conversion of 1,447 bushels of wheat, raised on the farm of one Thoms, and claimed by plaintiff under a chattel mortgage of the growing crop. Defence, title in one Deering, under an earlier chattel mortgage from Thoms, and that Deering deposited the wheat with defendant, who holds it as his bailee.
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Action brought in the district court for Grant county for the conversion of 1,447 bushels of wheat, raised on the farm of one Thoms, and claimed by plaintiff under a chattel mortgage of the growing crop. Defence, title in one Deering, under an earlier chattel mortgage from Thoms, and that Deering deposited the wheat with defendant, who holds it as his bailee. At the trial before C. L. Brown, -J., the plaintiff had a verdict for $821.60. Defendant appeals from an order refusing a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The controversy arises over the title and right to the possession of a quantity of wheat, of which the defendant is the bailee. The wheat was raised by one Thoms,., on land belonging to him situated in the town of St. Olaf, in the county of Otter Tail, but whose place of residence was at the village of Ashby, in the county of Grant, at the time of the execution of the mortgages in question here. • Thoms, being indebted to William Deering, did, in the month of February, 1887, execute to him a-chattel mortgage to secure the same, upon the crop of wheat to be sown, grown, and raised upon the…
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