Court Opinion

ID: 9458860
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:03:27.976013+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:54.984477
License: Public Domain

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge
(dissenting) :
I would affirm the judgment of the district court based on the directed verdict in favor of C. Ward Erwin, the defendant-appellee. I think the district judge correctly assessed the state of the evidence before the jury, when in granting the motion for directed verdict, he held as a matter of law that there was never any assignment of the contract or of its proceeds, and further held that estoppel did not arise from the facts present. It seems clear to me that at no time when Bowman Feed Products had corporate existence was the contract or its proceeds assigned by that corporation to Charles L. Bowman & Company.
I respectfully dissent.