Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co. v. Security Elevator Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

This is an action for damages to recover for the conversion of wheat. Judgment was for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.

The wheat was sold to defendant by Mr. Booth, the man who raised it, in the summer and fall of 1931. In 1930 Mr. Booth planted about 1,200 acres of wheat. Part of the land sown he owned and part he rented. He gave the assignor of plaintiff a chattel mortgage on the crop to be planted on one quarter sectión. When he harvested his wheat in 1931 he hauled all of it from all his different farms to his home place and piled it on the…