Drew v. Streeter

This is an action of tort for the conversion of certain personal property.

The plaintiff claims under a mortgage of the property executed on June 8, 1882, at twenty-five minutes after seven o’clock in the afternoon, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the town in which the mortgagor resided on June 9, 1882.

The defendant, who is a deputy sheriff, claims under an attachment of the property in a suit by a creditor of the mortgagor, made on June 8, 1882, at thirty minutes after eight o’clock in the afternoon.

The property was not delivered to, or taken possession of and retained by, the…