Frost v. Citizens' National Bank of Beloit

It appears that the firm of Hinman, Moody & Co., on the 5th day of September, 1883, executed a chattel mortgage upon the goods described in the complaint, to the respondent bank, to secure certain promissory notes therein described, and that said mortgage was duly filed in the clerk’s office of the city of Beloit on the 2d day of November thereafter. The said firm thereafter, and- about the 5th day of November, 1883, made- a voluntary assignment for the benefit of their creditors, of all of their property, including the goods which had been so mortgaged to said bank, to the appellant. The…