Johnson v. Tuttle

This is a tort action in the form of trover involving the ownership of a herd of cows and two horses. The plaintiff claims title to this property by virtue of a chattel mortgage thereon given to him by his daughter, Mrs. Lucy Blanchard, on February 8, 1933, to secure a note for $1,500. His evidence tended to show that Mrs. Blanchard bought the property of Alexander Cameron, the father and agent of Ella Cameron, a defendant, in July, 1932. The defendants claimed, and their evidence tended to show, that Ella owned the property at all times here material, having bought it with her own money…