Exchange National Bank v. McCaffery
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — O. D. Wheeler, Judge. This is an action at law brought by plaintiff against the defendant as sheriff of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, to replevin a certain carload of corn then in the custody of said sheriff under a writ of attachment issued by the district court of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in a case then pending therein brought by the Cavers Elevator Company against one Ií. K. Cochran.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — O. D. Wheeler, Judge. This is an action at law brought by plaintiff against the defendant as sheriff of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, to replevin a certain carload of corn then in the custody of said sheriff under a writ of attachment issued by the district court of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in a case then pending therein brought by the Cavers Elevator Company against one Ií. K. Cochran. There was a trial to a jury, and, at the conclusion of the testimony, the defendant moved for a verdict in his favor, which was overruled. Plaintiff also filed a…
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
It is conceded by appellant there is no dispute as to the law, and the propositions are as to whether there was sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury.
■The testimony shows without any substantial dispute that H. K. Cochran was engaged in the grain business at Little Rock, Arkansas. About August 19, 1910, he arranged with the Union Grain & Elevator Company to sell him a carload of corn to be shipped over the Rock Island line from Council Bluffs to Little Rock, Arkansas. The com was placed in the car and consigned 'by the elevator company to its own order at Little Rock, with…
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- Anchor Mill Co. v. Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1897
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