Davenport v. Ledger

Appellee executed to appellant, on the 19th day of March, 1874, a chattel mortgage on certain household goods, to secure the payment of a promissory note for $175 and accruing interest thereon, due and payable on the 20th day of May, 1874. There was a clause in the mortgage authorizing appellant, if he should feel himself insecure or unsafe, or should'fear diminution, removal, or waste for want of care, of the property, as well as for other (at present unimportant) enumerated causes, to treat the note as due and payable, without previous notice of his election so to do, and take immediate…