Fowler v. Hunt
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Crawford County. The defendant as sheriff levied upon certain goods and chattels *by virtue of executions against the property of one Wetzel, in whose possession the' goods were found.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Crawford County. The defendant as sheriff levied upon certain goods and chattels *by virtue of executions against the property of one Wetzel, in whose possession the' goods were found. Plaintiffs claimed a right to the possession of the property by virtue of a mortgage thereof executed by Wetzel to them about a month before the seizure, to secure the payment of $424, the purchase money of goods sold hy them to Wetzel; which mortgage was filed in the proper clerk’s office on the day of its execution. The answer averred, among other things, that the mortgage…
1Opinion of the CourtOeton, J.
The chattel mortgage on which the plaintiffs predicate their right to the property, the value of which they seek to recover in this action, was clearly void for uncertainty of description. The language of description is as follows: “ The entire stock in trade and fixtures of the said William Wetzel, consisting of clocks, watches, chains, show cases, jewelry, and all goods included in his stock, tools and material, excepting one safe, one regulator, one astronomical clock, two musical clocks, and stock in trade to the amount of two hundred dollars.”
This exception leaves in the mortgagor a…
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