Snyder v. Yates

This case presents a contest between a mortgagee and attaching creditors of one Meixsell with respect to cer*311tain mules and sawmill machinery. The attaching creditors established their right to priority before the chancellor, and his decree has been affirmed by the court of chancery appeals.. .The facts fonnd by the court of chancery appeals, so fan as necessary to be stated, are that Meixsell executed a chattel mortgage to Snyder upon the mules and machinery in question. It was acknowledged before Strick-lin, a justice of the peace of Saline county, Illinois, and was recorded by John B. Lee…