Hollingsworth v. Holbrook
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster District Court. — Hon. S. M. Weaver, Judge. Action to recover the possession of specific personal property. There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
— The petition alleges that plaintiff is the owner of a Buckeye power and grinder, a Hocking Valley corn-sheller, one cow, anda “two and one-half inch Studebaker wagon,” and entitled to the immediate possession thereof ; that the property described was wrongfully taken from his possession by defendant John Holbrook, by direction of defendant B. M. Halstead, under a pretended chattel mortgage purporting to have been executed by plaintiff, and is wrongfully detained by them; that the pretended mortgage was never executed by plaintiff, and is a forgery, and void. Judgment for the property is…
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