Crutcher v. Scott Publishing Co.

Respondent, trustee in bankruptcy for Mid-Columbia Publishers, Inc., hereinafter referred to as Mid-Columbia, brings this action for the conversion of a newspaper plant and equipment and the consequent destruction of the profitable portion of the then going business of the now bankrupt corporation.

Ralph E. Reed for many years owned and published, in Kennewick, the Courier-Reporter, a weekly newspaper, hereinafter referred to as the Courier, and operated a job printing business in connection therewith. In 1945, Reed entered into a contract to sell the newspaper and the_ printing business, the…