The Quaker Oats Company, a Corporation v. W. E. McKibben A. B. Carter, O. R. Lewis and Charley Geers, the Quaker Oats Company, a Corporation v. Charley Geers

230 F.2d 652 The QUAKER OATS COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. W. E. McKIBBEN, A. B. Carter, O. R. Lewis and Charley Geers, Appellees. The QUAKER OATS COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. Charley GEERS, Appellee. No. 14471. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. March 10, 1956. 1 Maury, Larsen & Hunt, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant. 2 Harry B. Ellison, Downey, Cal., Frank C. Nimocks, Downey, Cal., Charley Geers, in pro. per., Colton, Cal., for appellees. 3 Before STEPHENS and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges, and TAYLOR, District Judge. 4 TAYLOR, District Judge. 5 The above-entitled causes are before this Court on appeal from judgments of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division. Said causes were tried jointly in the district court and have been likewise presented and heard here. Appellant brought the actions below for damages arising out of the several defendants' alleged conversion of 1500 turkeys each of which was the subject of a chattel mortgage and upon which appellant thereby had a lien. Said causes were tried by the court sitting without a jury, and following the trial judgment was entered for the appellees in…