State Bank v. Northland Elevator Co.

In the fall of 1922, the plaintiff had a chattel mortgage on 126 bushels and 44 pounds of Durum wheat in an elevator at Alsen, North Dakota, and 636 bushels and two pounds of barley. One Nelson raised the grain on different tracts of land, held by him as a tenant under two different leases. One lease for land known in the case as the Formo lands, and tbe other lease, for a different tract of land known as the Currier lands.

In 1922, C. S. Laidlaw, was cashier of the-plaintiff bank, and gave to Nelson a writing as follows: “Pleasegive John Nelson a statement &- sell all grain in his name and E.…