United States v. Thomas

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

The United States filed suit in eight cases in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. In six of the cases the government sought recovery against farmers who had borrowed money from the Farm Credit Administration, and in each of the eight cases it sought to hold Thomas Brothers, a partnership, liable in tort and conversion for disposing of cotton which they had purchased from these six farmers and two others, and upon which the Farm Credit Administration held a chattel mortgage lien. W. T. Thomas, E. A. Thomas, M. C. Thomas, and L. M.…