Associated Bean Growers v. Chester B. Brown Co.

This is an action by the plaintiff for a declaratory judgment concerning the defendant’s refusal as a public warehouseman to redeliver stored beans. The plaintiff’s petition contained two causes of action each relating to a warehouse receipt for 8,419 pounds of Great Northern beans.

The case was tried to the court. On July 19, 1976, the court entered its judgment, finding for the plaintiff. The court found that the plaintiff had delivered to the defendant 8,149 pounds of grade 96 dry, edible Great Northern beans as evidenced by each recéipt and that the plaintiff tendered the receipts to the…