Legal Opinion

Dempsey v. Pforzheimer

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 28, 1891PublishedCited by 18 opinions

Error to Wayne. (Gartner, J.) Trover. Defendants bring error. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.

On the 22d day of October, 1886, William H. Harris and Charles T. Karpp, in partnership in the general jewelry business in Detroit, and both residents of that city, borrowed $2,000 of Caspar H. Borgess. To assure the payment of the same, they executed to him, under the firm name of Harris & Karpp, a chattel mortgage for that amount, which mortgage was taken by said *653Borgess in good faith to secure such indebtedness, but was not filed in the city clerk’s office until December 26, 1887, at 9:08 o’clock A. m. This mortgage covered all the goodB “now contained or hereafter to be contained” in the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Thompson v. . Van VechtenNew York Court of Appeals · 1863
  2. People's Savings Bank v. BatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  3. Fearey v. CummingsMichigan Supreme Court · 1879
  4. Charles Root & Co. v. HarlMichigan Supreme Court · 1886
  5. Crippen v. JacobsonMichigan Supreme Court · 1885

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Union National Bank v. OiumNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1892
  2. Landis v. McDonaldMissouri Court of Appeals · 1901
  3. People ex rel. Esper v. BurnsMichigan Supreme Court · 1910
  4. Blumauer v. ClockWashington Supreme Court · 1901
  5. Ransom & Randolph Co. v. MooreMichigan Supreme Court · 1935

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