Snow v. Mitchell

The plaintiff, L. A. Snow, doing business as L. A. Snow Company, instituted this action to foreclose a chattel mortgage, executed by Mitchell and Long, copartners, upon certain road building equipment, to secure an indebtedness owing to the plaintiff. An item of the mortgaged property was a “Model L. O.” Allis-Chalmers tractor, then in possession of the General Machinery Company, a corporation, under a claim of ownership. By an amended complaint, the machinery company was made a party to the action as an additional defendant.

The evidence is not before us either in the form of a statement of…