Timmer v. Gray

After disc harrows owned by Heaton were repossessed by the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) and left on a landowner's property, the landowner let his neighbor Gray (defendant) take possession, and Gray hired Maggert (defendant) to perform $857 in repairs, which Gray never paid for; the Timmers (plaintiffs) then purchased the discs from FmHA for just $75, without inspecting them, both parties to that sale believing the discs remained in disrepair. The Timmers sued for replevin and conversion to obtain the discs from Gray, and the trial court found the Timmers were the discs' owners but subject to Maggert's equitable lien for his unpaid repair costs; the Timmers appealed.