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UNITED STATES v. R. D. WILMANS & SONS, INC.

No. 15779.

251 F.2d 509 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. R. D. WILMANS & SONS, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

January 30, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter H. Schiff, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Osro Cobb, U. S. Atty., Little Rock, Ark., and Melvin Richter, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were with him on the brief), for appellant.

Kaneaster Hodges, Newport, Ark., for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the complaint in an action brought by the United States against R. D. Wilmans & Sons, Inc., for the alleged conversion of 20 bales of cotton, upon which the Government claims to have a chattel mortgage lien for $1,232.32 and interest.

The question for decision is whether the District Court reached a permissible conclusion in ruling that, under Arkansas law, a "Crop and Chattel Mortgage...

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