Razatos v. Daniels & Fisher Stores Co.

Action as in replevin by a chattel mortgagee to recover refrigerators and ranges in an apartment house. The holders of a second mortgage on the apartment-house property intervened and challenged the validity of the chattel mortgage on the grounds, as stated: (1) That the acknowledgment was defective; (2) that assuming interveners had actual knowledge of the chattel mortgage, not admitted, but denied, the pleadings did not present such issue; (3) that the chattels involved became fixtures, hence were not subject to chattel lien. Plaintiff made ample denial, and prevailed at trial. By their…