N Bar N Land & Livestock Co. v. Taylor

This is a claim and delivery action in which the plaintiff seeks to recover of the defendant sheriff alfalfa hay seized by the sheriff in an attempt to foreclose a chattel mortgage. Upon an agreed statement of facts and some oral testimony, the lower court rendered judgment for the defendant, and, after the denial of a motion for a new trial, the plaintiff appealed.

The plaintiff is a Montana corporation, of which Percy Williamson has been and is the president. For some years William Siedentopf and wife had owned land in Custer county, a portion of which yielded annually a crop of alfalfa. The…