Mercantile Trust Co. v. Wood
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
' In'Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the'South-érn District of Iowa. Attachment by Richard Wood, Samuel Brown, Henry Henderson, Henry Harper, and Andrew Crow, composing the firm of Wood, Brown & Co., against the Crescent Coal Company. The Mercantile Trust Company of New York intervened, claiming the attached property under a mortgage. There was judgment against the intervener, and it brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The controversy in this case was over a stock of goods that was in the possession of the Crescent Coal Company at What Cheer, in the state of Iowa. Wood, Brown & Co., the defendants in error, attached this stock February 13, 1891, on a debt of the coal company due to them. The Mercantile Trust Company, the plaintiff in error, intervened, and claimed the goods under a mortgage made to it by the coal company, dated February 1, 1890. There were two controlling issues tried. They were whether or not the mortgage covered the stock of goods, and, if so, whether or not the…
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