Kamholtz v. American Fruit Growers, Inc.

This is an action in conversion. The case was tried to a jury, and on its verdict for $926.01 a judgment was entered from which the defendant has appealed.

It appears that on May 6, 1927, respondents gave a crop mortgage to the Lampert Implement Co., of Yakima, Washington, covering twenty tons of No. 1 potatoes, to he properly sorted and sacked, which were to he grown during the season of 1927 on certain described land, to secure the payment of $250 and interest. In the fall of that year, at a conference between the parties to the mortgage, Mr. Lampert, representing the implement company, in…