Legal Opinion
Montana Meat Co. v. Missoula Livestock Auction Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Decided April 27, 1951No. 9041PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MR. JUSTICE METCALF:
On September 20, 1949, the Montana Meat Company sold more than 20 head of cattle to a rancher in Lewis and Clark county and as part payment took a note in the sum of $300.00. The note was secured by a chattel mortgage on the cattle duly and regularly filed in the office of the county clerk and recorder of Lewis and Clark county, Montana.
On November 25, 1949, the mortgagor without the knowledge and consent of the mortgagee included a mortgaged calf in a shipment to the Missoula Livestock Auction Company, a licensed Montana livestock market, for sale. It was sold and the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Stafford v. WallaceSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Tagg Bros. & Moorhead v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- Birmingham v. Rice Bros.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1947
- State ex rel. Redman v. MeyersMontana Supreme Court · 1922
- Ross v. MenefeeIndiana Supreme Court · 1890
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3Cited by17 opinions
- United States v. Union Livestock Sales Company, Inc., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1962
- Baker Sales Barn, Inc. v. Montana Livestock CommissionMontana Supreme Court · 1962
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- Batey Land & Livestock Co. v. NixonMontana Supreme Court · 1977
- O'Connell Ranch Co. v. Great Falls Livestock Commission Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1959
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