Wade v. Johnson

This is an action for money had and received. The controversy arose out of the following facts:

Prior to 1922 Omar Stubblefield purchased 715 breeding ewes from L. O. Johnson and about the *470same number from W. E. Jones and combined the two lots of sheep so purchased by him into one band, which he ran on the range in "Wallowa County until he sold the same as hereinafter stated. Part only of the purchase price was paid by Stubblefield at the time he acquired the sheep.

Johnson and Jones each held a mortgage or lien upon the sheep sold by him to Stubblefield, and upon the wool and increase…