McDevitt v. Jones

Appeal hy the defendant, W. F. J ones, as sheriff of the county of Fresno, from a judgment rendered against him in the sum of $7,890.13, in an action for conversion as the result of a sale by the sheriff of certain cottonseed of which plaintiff claimed to be the owner.

On the twentieth day of February, 1919, McDevitt Cotton Company, a corporation, leased to E. D. Skinner 931 acres of land in Fresno County for the purpose of raising cotton. Prior to August 14, 1919, plaintiff advanced in excess of $10,000 to Skinner to purchase seed for planting and pay labor and finance farming operations on…