Van Patten v. Leonard
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Scott Circuit Court. Th$ plaintiffs bring this action for the possession of six horses, three sets double harness, three delivery wagons, and certain promissory notes, checks, written obligations, and all books of account and accounts therein stated owing to one Eobert W. Pool. The plaintiffs base their claim to said property upon two bills of sale executed by Eobert W. Pool.
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Appeal from Scott Circuit Court. Th$ plaintiffs bring this action for the possession of six horses, three sets double harness, three delivery wagons, and certain promissory notes, checks, written obligations, and all books of account and accounts therein stated owing to one Eobert W. Pool. The plaintiffs base their claim to said property upon two bills of sale executed by Eobert W. Pool. The defendants answered, alleging that they held said property under a chattel mortgage executed by Eobert W. Pool' to "William Pool, and under a landlord’s attachment for rent due from Eobert "W. Pool to…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
— On the 2d day of October, 1877, Eobert W. Pool purchased of William Pool a retail grocery store, and executed therefor five promissory notes, each for the sum of $780.40, and due respectively in one, two, three, four and five years. To secure these notes Eobert W.-Pool executed a chattel mortgage upon property described as follows: “All the goods, wares, merchandise, fixtures, furniture and appliances used in and about the carrying on of a first-class retail grocery store, that are now in the house known as No. 422 Brady street, Davenport, Iowa, whether in the cellar, on the first floor, on…
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