Mosko v. Union National Bank

Action in replevin for recovery of three automobiles —covered by two chattel mortgages which are not challenged as to validity — brought by defendant in error bank against plaintiff in error Mosko who sought to justify retention of possession under an unrecorded chattel mortgage from the bank’s mortgagor, who had absconded after defrauding plaintiff in error of $400. Judgment was for plaintiff. Reference will be made to the parties as they appeared in the trial court.

The bank’s mortgage, dated November 24, 1937, given by one Rosenbaum, covered twenty-one cars, including two of the three…