Sweetzer v. Mead

Campbell J.:

The plaintiffs brought replevin against Mead and Nye for certain goods. The plaintiffs claimed title by virtue of a chattel mortgage, executed by one A. G. Scott in the name of the firm of E. G. Scott & Co., of which he was a member, executed December 26th, 1853, and filed on that day in the town clerk’s office at Ypsilanti, where the firm did business; and filed also, subsequently, on the 23d day of January, 1854, in the clerk’s office at Ann Arbor, where also they did business. The mortgage was under seal. The defendant Mead held the property, by virtue of certain justice’s…