Longhart Supply Co. v. Keystone Pipe & Supply Co.

The defendant in error, Keystone Pipe & Supply Company, hereinafter referred to for convenience as the plaintiff, sued the plaintiff in error, the Longhart Supply Company, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, to recover damages for the conversion of a standard oil drilling rig and its attachments. The facts are that one C. W. Whitehead owned and was using the rig in controversy in drilling an oil well on a section of land in Wilbar-ger county, upon which he had an oil and gas lease. While so owning and using the rig, the defendant sold and delivered to him, during April or May, 1926,…