Hull v. Godfrey

Cobb, Ch. J.

The plaintiff in error brought this action originally, in replevin, before a justice of the peace of Lincoln township, in Kearney county, alleging a special ownership in the goods and chattels, twelve cottage bedsteads, twelve sets of bed-springs, six mattresses, twelve hard-bottom chairs, seven washstands, one six-lid cook stove, and one refrigerator, on account of a chattel mortgage, filed for record January 21, 1888, given by Emma E. Warner, the owner, to secure promissory notes for $150, held by plaint*205iff, subject to a prior mortgage of defendants for $42.38, dated December…