Ley v. Reitz

William Deering brought suit in assumpsit against Lawrence P. Ley to the May term, 1885, of the Will Circuit Court, and at that term said Ley filed his pleas to the declaration. On the 8th day of February, 1886, said Ley executed his promissory note for $1,200, due two years after date, to John Ley, his father, who is appellant in the pending litigation, and secured the note by a chattel mortgage on a number of horses, mules, cows and cattle, and a considerable quantity of agricultural machinery and farming implements. A trial was had in the Deering suit on the 15th day of Februarv, 1886, and…