Hunt v. Bowen

Bland ford, Justice.

This was a claim case. George P. Swift & Son sold a sorrel pony horse, with one eye, to E. P. Bowen, of Russell county, Alabama, and took his note for the purchase price of the horse, with a mortgage on the horse and a reservation of title. This paper was not executed before any officer, but was recorded in Russell county. E. P. Bowen, being unable to pay for the horse, surrendered'it to Swift & Son, who afterwards sold it to J. D. Bowen, the claimant. O. D. Hunt, in Oolumbus, having made and being about to make advances to E. P. Bowen took from him a mortgage on a bay…