Potts v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.

This was a statutory claim case involving personal property only, in which the plaintiff in error (herein referred to as claimant) was the claimant, the defendant in error (herein referred to as the plaintiff) was the plaintiff in fi. fa., and the claimant’s husband, A. M. Potts, was the defendant in fi. fa. The plaintiff foreclosed its bill of sale and deed to secure a debt “in the same manner as mortgages on personal property are now foreclosed,” as provided in Code § 67-1601.

Upon the call of the case for trial and the announcement of ready by counsel for both sides, the claimant filed a…