SCROGGIN FARMS CORPORATION v. McFADDEN

No. 13506.

165 F.2d 10 (1948)

SCROGGIN FARMS CORPORATION v. McFADDEN et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

January 7, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

U. A. Gentry, of Little Rock, Ark. (Leffel Gentry and Martin Fulk, both of Little Rock, Ark., on the brief), for appellant.

G. D. Walker, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Helena, Ark. (Peyton Ford, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edward H. Hickey, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Richard N. Ivins, Attorney, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., James T. Gooch, U. S. Atty., and Warren E. Wood, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Little Rock, Ark., and James A. Doyle, Associate Solicitor, Lewis A. Sigler, Asst. Associate Solicitor, and Katherine A. Markwell, Attorney, Department of Agriculture, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee Commodity Credit Corporation.

E. L. McHaney, Jr., of Little Rock, Ark. (A. F. House, Rose Dobyns, Meek & House and Owens, Ehrman & McHaney, all of Little Rock, Ark., on the brief), for appellees John H. McFadden, Jr., and others.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and COLLET, Circuit Judges.


WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

This action was for the recovery of possession of certain cotton warehouse receipts or for damages for their alleged conversion. The receipts were pledged by cotton producers as collateral to secure loans made available by the Commodity Credit Corporation, an agency of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 7 U.S.C.A. § 1281 et seq. The producer-borrowers sold their equities of...

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