Torgerson v. Stocke

HONORABLE FRANK P. LEIPER, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE GALEN, disqualified, delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action in conversion. The amended complaint alleges in substance that on August 4, 1922, one Joe Torgerson executed and delivered to appellant two promissory notes, each in the sum of $800, bearing interest at ten per cent per annum, due October 15, 1922; that to secure the payment of these two notes Joe Torgerson executed and delivered to appellant a chattel mortgage covering a crop of wheat then growing upon certain lands in the mortgage described;…