Elder v. Massachusetts Mortgage Co.

— The plaintiffs Elder and Mrs. Coulter seek recovery of damages claimed as the result of the wrongful seizure, detention and damaging by the defendants mortgage company and the sheriff of an automobile owned by them. A trial upon the merits in the superior court for Pacific county, sitting without a jury, resulted in findings and judgment awarding to the plaintiffs recovery in the sum of $915, from which the mortgage company and the sheriff have appealed to this court.

On March 2, 1926, C. S. Sheldon, the then owner of the automobile in question, executed and delivered to the mortgage company…