Townsend v. Southern Product Co.

This was a claim case. Townsend caused a mortgage ,fi. fa. to be levied upon certain personal property as the property of Snyder, and the Southern Product Company interposed a claim thereto. On the trial it appeared that the defendant in fi. fa. was in *343possession of the property described in the levy, at the date of the execution of the mortgage. The property was purchased by Snyder from Lewis Patterson & Company, who took from Snyder a purchase-money note wherein title was retained in the seller until the purchase-price was paid. This note was recorded in the office of the clerk of the…