State Nat. Bank v. Cudahy Packing Co.

PHILIPS, District Judge.

This is an action for the conversion of 78 head of cattle, which the plaintiff claims were covered by a chattel mortgage, of date June 5, 1901, executed by Pumphry & Fleming to Tamblyn & Tamblyn, of Kansas City, Mo., to secure a note of even date therewith for $7,000, payable December 1, 1901. The plaintiff claims as purchaser of said note and the assignee of said mortgage, acquired June 10, 1901. The said mortgage was duly filed June 8, 1901, at Muskogee, in the Northern District of the Indian Territory, where the cattle were located, as by the laws of the territory…