Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. v. Amenia Seed & Grain Co.

ChRistiaNsoN, Oh. J.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court of Cass county sustaining a demurrer to three paragraphs in defendant’s amended answer, which said three paragraphs purport to set forth a separate defense and set-off to the cause of action alleged in the complaint.

The action is one to recover damages for the alleged conversion of certain grain in which the plaintiff claimed a special property by virtue of a thresher’s lien. The complaint alleges that in October, 1924, Budrow Brothers were the owners and operators of a certain threshing machine; that they threshed…