Williams v. Clink

The plaintiff brought replevin in the Muskegon circuit court for certain law-books and office furniture, under a chattel mortgage which he claimed to hold against the property. The defendant claimed that the mortgage was given without consideration. The jury found for the defendant, who waived a return of the property, and had judgment for it's value in the sum of $899.91.

The mortgage was executed September 2, 1886, for the sum of $1,000, and had been duly renewed each year. It was claimed by the plaintiff that the property was mortgaged in 1881 to the administrators of one Allen for the…