First National Bank v. Witherspoon Livestock Commission Co.

Defendants are livestock commission merchants in Kansas City and as such they sold certain cattle, the proceeds of which aggregate the sum of $4,118.63. This suit was brought against them by plaintiff for said sum of money, based upon two chattel mortgages owned by the plaintiff upon the cattle so sold. The defendants filed separate answers admitting that they had said sum of money in their hands from the sale of said cattle but setting up that the same was claimed by both plaintiff and the Shamrock Cotton Oil Company, Inc. Defendants offered to pay the money into court and prayed that the…