Johnston v. Standard Shoe Co.

LIGHTFOOT, Chief Justice.

On January 31, 1889, the mercantile firm of Hunstable & Moore executed to appellant, John T. Johnston, their clerk, as trustee, a chattel mortgage upon their stock of merchandise and fixtures, to secure certain debts therein named; among others, a debt for $3700 to the Blake Mutual Building and Loan Association. The deed of trust was duly filed for registration, and the trustee took ostensible possession of the property, and while in such possession it was levied upon by the sheriff of Dallas County, under a writ of attachment sued out in the case of the Standard Shoe…