Ahlman v. Meyer & Schurman

' It appears that on the 11th day of June, 1883, one Henry Poggensee was engaged in mercantile business at Plainview, Pierce county, and was indebted to sundry persons and firms. Among them, and doubtless his largest creditor, was the firm of Meyer & Schurman, the defendants in error. On that day the said Poggensee executed and delivered to Meyer & Schurman a chattel mortgage, *64in and by which be granted to them his entire stock of merchandise to secure his indebteness to them, amounting to seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. The mortgage is in the usual form, and…