Weigel v. Powers Elevator Co.

This is a conversion action. The plaintiff is engaged in the banking and the real estate business at Hebron; the defendant operates a public warehouse and elevator at Killdcer. The plaintiff seeks to recover damages from the defendant for the alleged conversion of a quantity of grain grown by one Frederick Spier, in 1920, upon certain lands situated in Dunn county. The grain, which the defendant is charged with converting, was delivered to it by Spier, at its elevator at Killdcer, North Dakota, sometime during the fall of 1920, and was the 1920 crop. It is conceded that the land on which the…