Whitney v. Spearman

On the 7th day of July, 1893, Hamilton M. Hinkle and Ethan H. Hinkle, doing business in Sarpy county in the firm name of Hinkle & Son, conveyed to the defendant, Cyrus K. Spearman, by chattel mortgage a stock of merchandise to secure the sum of $3,870, evidenced by three promissory notes of the mortgagors, to-wit, one for $1,200, maturing June 19,1893, one for $1,200, maturing June 19, 1894, and one for $1,487, maturing August 18, 1894. On the 20th day of July plaintiff in error, Whitney, as sheriff of Sarpy county, seized the property aforesaid in the possession of the mortgagee named to…