Puget Sound Warehouse Co. v. LaHue

Citations

• 86 Wash. 395
• 150 P. 630
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 1208

Syllabus

<p>Assignments — Proceeds of Crop Sale — Agreement—Trust—Evidence — Sufficiency—Consideration. Where a cropping tenant, indebted to his landlord on a promissory note, and to a warehouseman for sacks, stored the crop of wheat in the warehouse and deposited the warehouse receipts in a bank where the tenant’s note was held as collateral, and these parties, together with others claiming the right to liens for harvesting the crop, got together and agreed that the wheat should be sold, which was done, and part payment made by check to the bank holding the wheat receipts, one-third of which was supposed to belong to the tenant, the fact that the memorandum of sale of the wheat was made by the tenant as his own wheat, instead of for his creditors, does not show that there was no assignment of the fund or trust for the labor claimants for harvesting, where it further appears that it was cust&mary for the grower to make the sale of his own wheat, that, the indorsed wheat receipts were delivered to the tenant for that purpose, that he was to bring the money to the bank for distribution, and in the settlement the labor claims for harvesting were spoken of as being the first to be paid; the relation of debtor and creditor being sufficient consideration for the understanding to pay such labor claims.</p>