Wile v. Butler

Butler Bros., appellees, brought suit against Hecht& Co., *155and attached a stock of goods in possession of the latter firm. The appellants, Wile Bros. & Co., intervened, claiming the goods by virtue of a chattel mortgage before that time given by Hecht & Co. to the intervenors, to secure a debt owing by Hecht & Co. to them. The mortgage covered the goods which were attached, and provided that the mortgagors might sell the mortgaged property, and that they should, after deducting the expenses of sale, pay the proceeds at once to the mortgagees, retaining nothing for themselves.…