Durnin v. Waddingham

On December 11, 1880, the defendant, Mrs. E. J. Waddingham, a married woman, executed to D. H. Evans, a chattel mortgage of certain furniture used in a boardinghouse kept by her. In the deed of mortgage she is described as “ a widow.” Afterwards, Evans assigned the mortgage and the notes thereby secured, to the plaintiff, who claims to have been a bona fide purchaser of the same, without knowledge of the fact that Mrs. Waddingham was a married woman. Default having been made in the paj'ment of the notes thereby secured, or some of them, the plaintiff brought this replevin suit before a…