Legal Opinion
Ellsworth v. Campbell Bros. & Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided February 1, 1893PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from Hardin District Court. — Hon. S. M. We ayer, Judge. Action against the defendants, as commission merchants, for the balance claimed to be due from them as proceeds of sales of cattle shipped by the plaintiff. There was a trial to the court, resulting in a judgment for the plaintiff. The defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtEjote, J.
— The following facts are either admitted in the pleadings or established upon the trial. 'The plaintiff had two hundred and four fat steers on his' farm in Wright county, Iowa, in June, 1890. In that month he entered into the following contract of sale with one C. M. Brown:
“That Chas. M. Brown, of the town of Iowa Falls, Hardin county, Iowa, has this day purchased of E. S. Ellsworth, of the same place, one hundred and ninety-eight (-198) head of two and three years old,fat steers, now being fed on the farm of E. S. Ellsworth, in, section 21, township 91, range 23, Wright county, Iowa, in a…
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