McKibben

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 each case.

The facts of the cases may be outlined as follows. Appellant is in the business of providing poults for turkey growers and furnishing feed for the turkeys *654 ■until maturity. To protect the money it advances for poults and feed, it takes chattel mortgages on the turkeys. In ■this case, appellant furnished poults and feed to certain turkey growers, hereinafter referred to as the Growers. To secure the advances of credit, appellant took its customary chattel mortgages from the Growers and the said mortgages were duly acknowledged and recorded. At the time of the…