State ex rel. Blake v. Cabanne

This is an action on an indemnifying bond given in an attachment suit before a justice of the peace. The relator claimed the property as the assignee of a chattel mortgage. The mortgage, when offered in evidence, was objected to on the ground that it did not contain a sufficient description of the property to impart notice to a subsequent creditor under the statute relating to mortgages of personal property. Rev. Stats., sect. 2503. The court overruled this objection and the propriety of this ruling is the only question in the case.

The property is described in the mortgage as follows: The…