Powell v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n

THE COURT.

The plaintiff, Robert Powell, has appealed from a judgment which was rendered against him in a suit for conversion of money. The lienholder of certain warehouse receipts for a quantity of grain delivered them to the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, at Woodland, with written instructions to sell the grain to designated dealers for a specified sum of money, and to pay said lienholder from the proceeds of sale the sum of $240.09, and to remit the balance directly to the owner, L. M. Miller. The bank sold the grain and paid the lienholder said sum of $240.09, as…