Minneapolis Threshing MacHine Co. v. Bradford

Having sold a threshing outfit to defendant and accepted a chattel mortgage thereon for the unpaid purchase money, plaintiff brought replevin based on said chattel mortgage to recover possession of said outfit; and under the writ it was taken from defendant, who, in his answer, demanded its return and set up as a defense a counterclaim for certain damages based upon a breach of plaintiff’s contract in selling him the outfit.

Plaintiff introduced the chattel mortgage and rested as soon as it was disclosed that three of the unpaid notes, aggregating $1552 of principal, were due at time of the…