United States v. E. W. Savage & Son, Inc.

STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

This is a combined appeal by three livestock commission firms from an en*306try of directed verdicts and judgments for conversion of livestock owned by a third-party defendant, Robert W. Shields, not a party to this appeal. The livestock in issue were subject to a Farmers Home administration mortgage executed by Shields. In directing the verdicts, the trial court held that under South Dakota law1 defendants were agents of Shields, the original debtor, and personally liable for assisting him in the alleged conversion. The trial court’s memorandum decision is reported at…