Greer v. Whalen

The appellee, a merchant of Baltimore City, was in the year 1909 the owner of a farm near Ellicott City, in Howard County, and the appellants were dealers in livestock at the. Union Stock Yards in said pity.

The appellee in the fall of each year for a number of years prior to that time had bought from the appellants small young cattle, known as stock cattle, and had placed them upon his farm where they were fattened and improved and were thereafter, in the succeeding year, sold at the stock yards through the agency of the appellants.

According to the evidence offered on the part of the…