Ragland v. Watkins National Bank

The opinion of the court was delivered by

H¡utchison, J.:

This is an action for conversion of 135 head of cattle on which the plaintiff claims a lien by chattel mortgage and charges the defendant bank with having taken and sold the cattle and converted the proceeds to its own use. The defendant bank 'admits the taking and selling of 135 head of cattle, but denies the right of any lien by the plaintiff on them and asserts an agistor’s lien and chattel-mortgage lien of its own on the cattle it took and sold. The mortgagor, W. P. Dorman, had given a chattel mortgage to each party on cattle…