Farm Credit Corp. v. Rigby National Bank

This is an action in conversion to recover $1181.41, for clover and alfalfa seed alleged to have been wrongfully converted by Rigby National Bank. This is the alleged value of one-half of the seed grown by Charles W. Kelch in 1925 upon certain rented land.

In proving title plaintiff offered in evidence the unrecorded assignment of an unrecorded instrument entitled “Idaho Farm Lease,” by the terms of which the rental was to be one-half the crop.

The bank’s claim of title is based upon a purchase at execution sale of the entire crop of seed raised by Kelch in foreclosure of farm labor liens.

The…