Salabes v. Castelberg
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Wright, J.) The description of the ring was indefinite and uncertain. Art. 21, secs. 45 and 41 of the Code, p. 262, requires that all chattel mortgages and bills of sale shall contain a description of the articles conveyed.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Wright, J.) The description of the ring was indefinite and uncertain. Art. 21, secs. 45 and 41 of the Code, p. 262, requires that all chattel mortgages and bills of sale shall contain a description of the articles conveyed. Where a statute requires that a mortgage shall contain the description of the property, it necessarily means an efficient and full description, so that the same may be easily and readily known or distinguished from, other property of the same kind. Fersner v. Bradley, 87 Md. 489. There is no evidence in the record to show…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyd, J.
The appellees sued the appellant in trover for the conversion to his own use of a diamond ring, which one William B. Linthicum had mortgaged to them. The mortgage is dated the 27th of October, 1900, and was given to secure the sum of $120 payable in weekly installments of $2 per week. Linthicum had paid the appellees $68, and the verdict was for only $52, being the balance due. On the 1 ith of December, 1900, Linthicum obtained $65 on the ring from the appellant, who was a pawnbroker, and on September 20th, 1901, a new ticket was issued for that sum, which was payable in six months. There are…
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