Severance v. Melick

Corb, Ch. J.

This action was brought in the court below by the plaintiff against the defendants for the possession of certain chattel property. The claim of the plaintiff to the said property was founded on a chattel mortgage executed to him by one Cochran to secure the payment of a promissory note for $200, interest, and attorney’s fees.

*612It appears from the pleadings that one Frank L. Sheldon had two mortgages executed by the same party, prior in date to the plaintiff’s mortgage, upon property of a somewhat similar description; that Sheldon had taken possession of certain j>roper,ty and…