Morris v. Third Nat. Bank of Springfield
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. This was an action by the Third National Bank of Springfield, Mass., against Nelson Morris, Edward Morris, and Frank E. Vogel, partners as Nelson Morris & Co., and the J. C. Bohart Commission Company, a corporation, to recover the value of 226 head of .steex-s alleged to have been converted by them to their own use.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. This was an action by the Third National Bank of Springfield, Mass., against Nelson Morris, Edward Morris, and Frank E. Vogel, partners as Nelson Morris & Co., and the J. C. Bohart Commission Company, a corporation, to recover the value of 226 head of .steex-s alleged to have been converted by them to their own use. Sex-vice was obtained only upon the defendant Edward Morris, and the action proceeded against him alone. The right of the plaintiff was averred to be by virtue of three chattel mortgages, one…
1Opinion of the CourtHook, Circuit Judge
Edward Morris did not personally participate in the transactions which are claimed to amount to a conversion of the mortgaged cattle, and if he is liable it must be by reason of the liability of the firm of Nelson Morris & Co., of which he was a member. The 4.6 assignments of error, so far as they require consideration, present but few general propositions.
1. The request of the defendant at the conclusion of the evidence for a directed verdict was denied. He contends that the evidence conclusively proved that the packing establishment at St. Joseph, Mo., where the cattle were slaughtered, was…
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