Crane v. Chandler

Thatcher, O. J.

The appellants brought suit in attachment against one H. M. Behymer, and under tbe writ the sheriff seized a certain lot of personal property. Mrs. Chandler filed her interplea, claiming tbe property. At tbe trial of the issue on tbe interplea, she sought to establish her right to the property by introducing in evidence two certain chattel mortgages. It was objected that .tbe notary public before whom the mortgages were acknowledged, had failed to make a memorandum thereof in bis dpcket, in conformity with the statute. Is the memorandum essential to the validity of a mortgage…