Cushing v. Seymour, Sabin & Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiffs, tbe owners and mortgagors of the threshing-machine mentioned in the opinion, brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover damages for the alleged conversion of the threshing-machine by defendant, the mortgagee.
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Plaintiffs, tbe owners and mortgagors of the threshing-machine mentioned in the opinion, brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover damages for the alleged conversion of the threshing-machine by defendant, the mortgagee. The action was tried before Lochren, J., and a jury, who returned a verdict in which they found specially for the plaintiffs (1) for the value of the machine at the time of the conversion, the sum of $350; (2) that plaintiffs, in August, 1880, in ignorance of the seizure and conversion by defendant, incurred expenses in going with men and teams…
1Opinion of the Court
Berry, J.*
Plaintiffs purchased of defendant (a corporation) a ■threshing-machine, belts, and fixtures, for $50 down, and their four motes for $500, in the aggregate, secured by a chattel mortgage of the purchased property. The mortgage contained the customary provisions for seizure and sale, upon default in paying the notes when <due. It also provided that in case the mortgagee should at any time, having just cause therefor, “deem itself unsafe,” it should be lawful for-it to take possession of the mortgaged property and sell it, etc. The defendant seized the machine, and some of the belts…
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