Kramer v. Northwestern Elevator Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Yellow Medicine county to recover $844.30, and interest, for the conversion of wheat alleged to have been stored with defendant. The case was tried before Powers, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for the sum demanded. From an order denying a motion for a new triál, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The complaint alleged that appellant was a corporation engaged in the business of receiving for storage and storing wheat and other grains, as a bailee, in its warehouse at Clara City; that it was appellant’s custom to receive wheat for storage under the agreement that the parties storing it might at any time .thereafter, on demand, sell the wheat to appellant at the market price on the day of such demand; that between February 1, 1889, and April 15, 1901, respondent delivered to and stored in appellant’s warehouse twelve hundred sixty bushels of wheat, to be held by appellant as…
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