HOUSTEIN TRUCKING v. Sandhills Beef, Inc.

Appellant, Sandhills Beef, Inc., appeals from an order of the District Court for Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, ordering it to deliver to appellee, Honstein Trucking, 4,477.92 cwt. of corn or, in the alternative, to pay appellee the value of such corn, which the court found to be $17,240. Appellee, a commercial combiner of grain, sued the appellant, a corporation that engages in extensive cattle feeding operations, in replevin to recover 10,956.52 bushels of corn against which the appellee claimed a thresher’s lien under the terms of Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 52-501 to 52-503 (Reissue 1978). The…