Sleeper v. Wilson

This is an action at law for conversion, heard before the circuit judge without a jury. Plaintiffs had judgment and defendant appeals.

On May 22, 1929, plaintiffs took a chattel mortgage, in form a bill of sale, from C. Wilbur White to secure the payment of White’s indebtedness to plaintiff bank of approximately $1,500. The mortgaged property consisted of certain drilling tools and a large quantity of iron pipes or casings used in drilling oil wells. Upon receiving the mortgage plaintiffs employed a man who lived across the road from where the mortgaged property was located to take possession…