Lubbock Feed Lots, Inc., and Lockney Cooperative Gin v. Iowa Beef Processors, Inc.

TATE, Circuit Judge:

The defendant packer appeals from judgment holding it liable to the plaintiffs, feedlot operators, for the unpaid price of cattle purchased by a buyer found to be its agent. The present appeal concerns some of the substantive issues decided adversely to the same defendant by another panel of this circuit in Valley View Cattle Co. v. Iowa Beef Processors, Inc., 548 F.2d 1219 (5th Cir. 1977).

The plaintiffs, two Texas feedlot operators, sold their customers’ cattle to one Louie Heller. Heller, in his turn, passed the cattle on to the defendant out-of-state meat packer in…