Jackson, Hunter & Gould Coal Co. v. Holton

This appeal involves the rights of an intervening claimant and the chattel mortgagee in a replevin action instituted by the latter against the mortgagor and one in actual possession of the property.

The subject of the action was a number of cars of coal in possession of a railroad company, a defendant below. The intervener claimed title by purchase from the mortgagor or, in the alternative, possession as the mortgagor’s factor by reason of its status as consignee under bills of lading issued by the railroad. Plaintiff obtained possession of the coal under the writ and disposed of the same. The…