Whittier v. First National Bank

The bank had judgment in replevin against Whittier for certain horses, and he comes here on error. He was sheriff of Logan county and had levied an execution on the horses. The bank claimed them under a chattel mortgage.

August 20, 1918, one Clark gave the bank a note for 86,600, payable as stated in the body thereof “on demand after date” but it bore when made a marginal note, “due 2/29/19”, which the bank’s cashier, recollecting that 1919 was not leap year, afterwards changed to “3/1/19.” The maker secured the note by the chattel mortgage in question, duly recorded, upon the horses and…