Bank of California v. American Fruit Growers, Inc.

SCHWELLENBACH, District Judge.

In this case the plaintiff contends that defendant converted the proceeds from certain sales of apples produced in 1937 on which plaintiff alleges it had a first lien by virtue of certain crop mortgages executed by some thirty-one fruit growers in *970the Wenatchee Valley of the State of Washington. The plaintiff prays for an accounting and, after such accounting, judgment in the sum of $67,771.30 with interest.

The plaintiff is a national banking association with its principal place of business in San Francisco, California. It maintains a branch at Seattle,…