Horton v. . Davis

I think the view taken by the Supreme Court of this case was the correct one. The plaintiff had a mortgage on a vessel owned by one Wooster, which was recorded in the office of the collector of the port of Sag Harbor, on the 8th August, 1857, and a copy thereof filed in the clerk's office of the town, in which the mortgagor resided, on the 19th October, 1857. William M. Betts, a creditor of Wooster, obtained an attachment from a justice of the peace, under which a constable attached the vessel on the evening of the last named day. The defendants had recovered a judgment against Wooster, on…