Consolidated Hair Goods Co. v. Adams Clark Building Corp.

Plaintiff brought an action in trover, alleging the conversion by defendants of property worth $500; upon trial by the court defendants were found not guilty, and plaintiff appeals from the judgment on the finding.

Plaintiff’s rights rest upon a chattel mortgage, and it sa;/s that defendants sold the chattels by virtue of a judgment against the mortgagor, in defiance of plaintiff’s rights as mortgagee.

Salvatore DeCaprio conducted a beauty shop in the building owned and operated by defendant Adams Clark Building Corporation; he had executed a chattel mortgage to the plaintiff conveying chattels…