Hughes v. Abston

This is an action by complainants, claiming under a chattel mortgage executed and registered in Arkansas, to held the defendant liable for the proceeds of five bales of cotton upon which the mortgage rested, and which -were sold by the defendant, a commission merchant or cotton factor in Memphis.

The bill was demurred to on two .grounds — one that it is not alleged that the defendant still has the proceeds of the cotton in his hands, and has not in good faith paid them over to the person for whom he made the sale, and, second, that the mortgage is invalid because the property purported to be…