Legal Opinion

Ingalls v. Vance

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided May 15, 1889PublishedCited by 8 opinions

This was an action of replevin, heard at the June Term, 1888 " Rowell, J., presiding. The court found the following facts : Nov. 8,1884, oneM. executed and delivered to plaintiffs a chattel mortgage of’ certain live stock, which mortgage was duly recorded. Afterwards M. delivered said live stock to the defendant to be kept for him on his farm in Danville.

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This was an action of replevin, heard at the June Term, 1888 " Rowell, J., presiding. The court found the following facts : Nov. 8,1884, oneM. executed and delivered to plaintiffs a chattel mortgage of’ certain live stock, which mortgage was duly recorded. Afterwards M. delivered said live stock to the defendant to be kept for him on his farm in Danville. Plaintiffs were subsequently notified of this transaction, to which they replied, all we claim is the amount of our mortgage debt. More than thirty-days after the condition of said mortgage had been broken, said, mortgage debt not having…

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The opinion of the court was delivered by

Eoyce, Ch. J.

The stock sought to be replevied in this case is claimed by plaintiffs under a mortgage of unquestioned validity and by defendant under an alleged lien for its keeping, founded on No. 91, Acts of 1884. This act is almost identical *584in language with Pub. Stat. of Mass., chap. 192, s. 32; a statute which has recently received a careful consideration and interpretation by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in a case presenting, in this feature of it, facts almost precisely similar to those of the case atbar. We refer to the case of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Wills v. BarristerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1863

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Peter Barrett Manufacturing Co. v. RonkNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
  2. El Paso Cattle Loan Co. of El Paso v. HuntNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1924
  3. Wilson v. DonaldsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1898
  4. Marnella v. FromanIdaho Supreme Court · 1922
  5. Lazarus v. MoranMissouri Court of Appeals · 1895

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