Kearney v. Clutton

This is an action of trover for the conversion of certain household and personal goods. Plaintiff and her husband, on April 24, 1890, executed a chattel mortgage to one Cromwell Clutton, to secure the payment of an expressed consideration of $135. Shortly afterwards Mr. Kearney died. After his death, Mrs. Kearney executed to another person a second mortgage upon the goods, for the sum of $200. She broke up housekeeping, and stored the goods with the defendants Grace, who carried on a storage and cartage business, under the name of the Fidelity Storage Company. Cromwell Clutton, it appears,…