Paladin is hired by the railroad to bring in an outlaw, Curley Ashburne. However, Paladin and the marshal in charge, Lyle McKendrick, are stranded in a snowbound cabin with Curley and a young girl... and Curley has enough money to buy and sell them all.

The mayor and crooked judge of a small town makes the mistake of forcing Paladin to defend a doctor on trial for treating a man who subsequently killed a deputy.