William Deering & Co. v. Washburn

This was an action in replevin, by appellant, against appellee, in the circuit court of Fayette county. It was tried before the Hon. James A. Creighton, without a jury, and judgment rendered for the defendant. That judgment has been affirmed by the Appellate Court, and appellant now brings the record to this court by appeal.

Plaintiff below claimed the property in question, a stock of agricultural implements,—under a chattel mortgage executed to it on the 1st day of February, 1889, by one H. B. Miller, while the defendant justified his seizing and holding the same, as sheriff of Fayette…