Hunt v. Ludwig

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

This is a bill to foreclose a chattel mortgage.. The defendants are mortgagors and judgment creditors. The chattel mortgage was dated January 8th, 1921; one of the judgments was recovered in November, 1911, and the others January 24th and August 8th, 1921. The question is the validity of the chattel mortgage as against the judgment creditors. The mortgagee’s affidavit states that the consideration was $3,580. It is conceded that, this was untrue, and it is said to be a mistake of the clerk who included the amount of another mortgage of $500.…