State v. Neil

Appellee was placed on trial, under an indictment charging him with the commission of the crime of grand larceny, alleged to have been committed by stealing an electric lighting plant, the property of the National Old Line Life Insurance Company. The theory npon which the insurance company claimed title to the articles alleged to have been stolen was that they were a part of the realty, the title to which had been secured through purchase under a decree foreclosing a mortgage upon which land the light plant was located. The mortgage described only the real estate, and contained no reference…