Darling & Co. v. Petri

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action which originated before a justice of the peace to recover the purchase price of a quantity of fertilizer which defendant had bought from a farmers’ association at the railway point of Dennis, in Labette county.

Plaintiff alleged that it was the owner of the fertilizer which was in the possession of the farmers’ association under a consignment agreement between plaintiff and the association of several years’ *667standing; that on September 20, 1931, the association, as agent of plaintiff, had sold to defendant ten tons of…