Legal Opinion

United States National Bank v. Great Western Sugar Co.

Montana Supreme Court

Decided February 4, 1921No. 4,247PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal from District Court, Yellowstone County; Charles A. Taylor, Judge. Action by the United States National Bank of Eed Lodge against the Great Western Sugar Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. “Agreed statements of fact are solemn admissions, resembling special verdicts, and (as with the latter) the meaning of the language in which they reach us cannot be enlarged beyond its express scope.”

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Appeal from District Court, Yellowstone County; Charles A. Taylor, Judge. Action by the United States National Bank of Eed Lodge against the Great Western Sugar Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. “Agreed statements of fact are solemn admissions, resembling special verdicts, and (as with the latter) the meaning of the language in which they reach us cannot be enlarged beyond its express scope.” (Ozark Plateau Land Co. v. Hays, 105 Mo. 143, 16 S. W. 957; Koppel v. Mass. Brick Co., 192 Mass. 223, 78 N. E. 128; Gallagher v. Hathaway Mfg. Co., 169 Mass. 578, 48 N. E. 844.)…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reynolds

This action was commenced by plaintiff to recover a judgment against defendant for conversion of chattel mortgaged property. Judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff, and defendant has appealed.

The case was submitted upon an agreed statement of facts, from which the following facts appear: On the fourteenth day of May, 1914, the defendant entered into a written contract with one C. H. Nelson, under the terms of which the latter promised to grow and deliver to defendant sugar beets to be raised on a certain twenty acres of land leased by him in Carbon county, Montana. Pursuant with the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Harrington v. Stromberg-Mullins Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1903

3Cited by15 opinions

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  2. Stagg v. StaggMontana Supreme Court · 1931
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  4. Glacier General Assurance Co. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceMontana Supreme Court · 1968
  5. Barkemeyer Grain & Seed Co. v. HannantMontana Supreme Court · 1923

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