Simmons v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiff recovered a judgment of $84.55 against defendant, in justice’s court, in an action for conversion of grain. An appeal, on questions of law only, to the district court for Swift county, was tried by Baxter, J., and the judgment of the justice was reversed. Plaintiff appeals from the judgment of the district court.
1Opinion of the CourtMitoheld, J.
This was an action for the alleged wrongful conversion of certain grain, which plaintiff claimed under a chattel mortgage executed to him by one Maxwell. The defendant in his answer denied plaintiff’s right to the property, and alleged ownership in himself. The burden was therefore on plaintiff to establish his claim. *488The evidence, so far as it tends to prove anything, shows that on March 16, 1888, Maxwell executed to plaintiff a mortgage on all the crops which had been or might thereafter be sown, grown, or raised ■during the year 1888 on a certain tract of land then in possession of…
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