Gallagher v. Aroostook Federation of Farmers

The case comes up on appeal from decree of a single Justice sitting in equity. The bill sets out a chattel mortgage given by the plaintiff to the defendant on May 7,1936 for $7193.00 and accruing indebtedness, upon farm equipment and upon a crop of potatoes to be raised during the then coming season; the taking possession by the mortgagee of the potato crop as harvested and before any default against the protest of the mortgagor; a charge of $922.50 for storage of potatoes by the mortgagee and a denial of liability therefor; foreclosure proceedings begun on December 2, 1936; written agreement…