Sampson v. Camperdown Cotton Mills
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
This was a suit by O. H. Sampson & Co. against the Camper-down Cotton Mills for the foreclosure of a mortgage. Vardry E. Mollee filed an intervening petition. A rule to show cause was issued to the plaintiff, purchaser at the foreclosure sale, to which he filed a return.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONTON, Circuit Judge.
The Camperdown Cotton Mills, a corporation, executed to the complainant in March, 1893, a mortgage of its personal property. The description of the property mortgaged *940begins thus: “125 H. P. Buckeye automatic cut-off engine, two steam boilers, one steam .pipe, one two-beater opener, 56 36-inch Wellman cords, with railway, troughs, and fixtures complete;” going on and giving in minute detail, article by article, the machinery and appliances used in a cotton mill. Alter this long and minute detail come these words in a separate paragraph: “All personal property of…
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