Holland v. Griffith

This was an action of replevin brought by Griffith for certain live stock taken on a chattel mortgage executed by the defendant in error to the plaintiff in error, to secure a note given for the right to sell certain patented articles within certain counties of the state. The defendant in error, in and by his reply and supplemental reply in the court below, alleged that the said mortgage, after it was executed and delivered, and before the same was filed for record, had been altered in a material respect, to-wit: by erasing the description of the property and writing in the description of…