Hartford-Connecticut Trust Co. v. Puritan Laundry, Inc.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to foreclose a chattel mortgage, brought to and tried by the City Court of Hartford, Bullard, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, from which the defendant Pratt Laundry Company appealed. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage of personal property.
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Suit to foreclose a chattel mortgage, brought to and tried by the City Court of Hartford, Bullard, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, from which the defendant Pratt Laundry Company appealed. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage of personal property. The defense of the Pratt Laundry Company of Hartford, hereinafter called the Pratt Company, is that an attachment made by it on the property mortgaged, in an action against the mortgagor, the defendant Puritan Laundry Company, hereinafter called the Puritan Company, subsequent to the mortgage, has priority over the…
1Opinion of the CourtGager, J.
Under our statute authorizing retention of possession by a mortgagor of personal property of the several kinds described in the statute, and to which property in question belongs, it is required that the the mortgage shall contain “a particular description of such personal property.” General Statutes, § 5206. The description in the mortgage in this action was “all machinery, tools and equipment located on said premises used in connection with the laundry business conducted by the grantor.” The trial court held that this was too general and indefinite a description to secure the protection of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- In re Wilcox & Howe Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
- Lyon v. LymanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1831
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- Gaylor v. HardingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1871
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