Willey v. Snyder

Cooley, Ch. J:

An able and ingenious argument was made in this case to convince us that a description of property in a chattel mortgage as “One Durm bull, known as the Grinnalls bull,— said bull is four years old and weighs about 2,400 pounds,” was so vague and indefinite as to prevent the mortgage, when duly filed, becoming constructive notice to a subsequent purchaser of the bull from the mortgagor. The position of the plaintiff is perhaps sufficiently shown by the instruction which he requested in the court below; namely, “that the description must be such as would enable a stranger, with…