Butler v. Bunge Corporation

MEMORANDUM OPINION

READY, Chief Judge.

In this diversity action the plaintiff is William R. Butler, Jr. (Butler), a Mississippi citizen conducting a farming operation in Bolivar County, Mississippi, and the defendant, Bunge Corporation (Bunge), is a New York corporation engaged in buying and storage of grain in Mississippi under the trade name of River Grain Company. The suit seeks the recovery of $38,265.30, plus interest, claimed by Butler as the unpaid purchase price for his 1968 soybean crop sold and delivered in February 1969 to Coahoma Grain Elevator, a facility which Butler contends was…