Bryant v. Wilcox
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Hillsdale; Lockwood, J., presiding. Trover by Ira N. Bryant against Amos Wilcox. There was judgment for plaintiff for less than the amount claimed, and both parties bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
OneOzon M. Keith was, in October, 1901, indebted to different parties in the sum of about $400. Keith, to secure the defendant for an indorsement of a note of $81, gave a chattel mortgage, which the testimony tends to show was given with the purpose of defeating Keith’s creditors. The mortgage purported to secure an indebtedness of $500. One of Keith’s creditors sued out an execution against Keith’s property. Defendant, Wilcox, claimed to such creditor that he held a mortgage of $500, but notwithstanding this claim, and in defiance of it, *670the creditor levied. Keith thereupon requested…
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