Chickering-Chase Bros. v. White
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Mari-nette county: S. D. Hastikgs, Circuit Judge. This is an action of replevin commenced August 13, 1904, by the plaintiff, a foreign corporation, to recover the possession of a piano detained by the defendants L. J. White and M. J. White. The plaintiff claimed title by virtue of a chattel mortgage upon the piano executed to it by the owner thereof, the defendant Mrs. Chas.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Mari-nette county: S. D. Hastikgs, Circuit Judge. This is an action of replevin commenced August 13, 1904, by the plaintiff, a foreign corporation, to recover the possession of a piano detained by the defendants L. J. White and M. J. White. The plaintiff claimed title by virtue of a chattel mortgage upon the piano executed to it by the owner thereof, the defendant Mrs. Chas. T. Greene, on February 23, 1901, which mortgage was filed in the office of the city clerk of the city of Marinette March 10, 1901, and was claimed to have been renewed by an…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNsnow, J.
This is a contest for the possession of a piano between a chattel mortgagee upon the one side and a firm claiming a subsequent boarding-house keeper’s lien upon the other side. The trial court held that the boarding-house keeper’s lien was paramount, and the chattel mortgagee seeks to reverse the judgment upon this appeal. In the trial court the validity of the alleged chattel mortgage was attacked on two grounds: (1) because the plaintiff was a foreign corporation and had not at the time of the execution of the mortgage filed with the secretary of state a copy of its articles of…
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