Davis v. Pitcher
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Greene District Court. — Hon. Charles D. Goldsmith, Judge. Action at law to recover, the possession of books . of account and accounts. A demurrer to the petition was. sustained, and, the plaintiff having refused to plead further, judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
On the twenty-second day of August, 1894, one Coe Davis executed and delivered to the plaintiff a mortgage on property which was described as follows:. “The following goods and chattels,to-wit: My entire stock of goods and merchandise, consisting principally of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, flour, salt, and other merchandise, now owned and kept by me in the one-story frame building, and a cellar thereunder, situated on the north half of the south two-thirds of lots No. sixteen and seventeen (18,17),-in block No. twenty (20), in the original town plat of Scranton, Greene county, Iowa;…
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