Montana Supreme Court April 18, 1925, No. 5,620. (Middle States Oil Corp. v. Tanner-Jones Drilling Co.)

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE CALLAWAY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action in conversion, begun by tbe plaintiff against tbe Tanner-Jones Drilling Company, hereafter called the defendant, the sheriff of Big Horn county, and the sheriff’s bondsman, to recover tbe sum of $25,000, tbe alleged value

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of casing seized and disposed of by the sheriff at the direction of the defendant.