Strand v. Jones County

The chattel mortgage that is here involved was duly filed and indexed on October 1, 1938, in the office of the recorder of Clinton county, Iowa, that having been the county of the mortgagor’s residence. There was no actual knowledge of the mortgage on the part of the defendant at the time it purchased and allegedly converted the 13 steers. At the conclusion of the trial the parties were granted time within which to file briefs. On a subsequent date the court entered an “order and judgment” in which a finding was made “that the mortgage involved in this proceeding was not sufficient to impart…