Abbott v. Johnson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Chippewa, County. Action to foreclose a mortgagé given by the defendant Charles Johnson to the plaintiffs to secure payment of his notes: one for $600, due December 1,1875; one for $400, due December 1, 1876; one for $200, due December 1, 1877. Charles Johnson answered that the notes and mortgage were given to secure such sum as might be due the plaintiffs from one John C. Johnson under an agreement for the sale to the latter by plaintiffs…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Chippewa, County. Action to foreclose a mortgagé given by the defendant Charles Johnson to the plaintiffs to secure payment of his notes: one for $600, due December 1,1875; one for $400, due December 1, 1876; one for $200, due December 1, 1877. Charles Johnson answered that the notes and mortgage were given to secure such sum as might be due the plaintiffs from one John C. Johnson under an agreement for the sale to the latter by plaintiffs of a steam separator of a certain described construction and character; that the contract of sale contained a warranty of…
1Opinion of the CourtObtqn, J.
We think it sufficiently appears from the evidence, that in August, 1874, John C. J ohnson purchased of respondents certain steam machinery, for the sum of $1,709.20, paid a small part of it, and gave his notes for the balance, to become due in the months of November and December, 1874 and 1875, and in the months of January and November, 1876; and, to secure the same, executed to the respondents a chattel mortgage upon the whole or part of the machinery sold, and a mortgage upon certain real estate which he claimed to own. In the month of July, 1875, after the said John C. Johnson had made…
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