Rotterman v. General Mills, Inc.

— This is an action in equity demanding judgment for the value of 1002 bushels of soybeans alleged to have been converted by the defendant, General Mills, Incorporated, at its Belmond, Iowa, plant. The plaintiffs, under an oral arrangement with the Garry Grain Company, of Ledyard, Iowa, had delivered some 105 acres of soybeans to the Garry Grain Company in the months of September, October and November, 1948, and three of the loads had been trucked direct from the farm to the defendant’s mills at Belmond. The main issue in the case is whether the original transaction between the plaintiffs and…