McCreary v. Skinner

The plaintiff is the wife of A. B. McCreary, who in February, 1886, was the owner of a stock of merchandise consisting of books, stationery, wallpaper, watches, jewelry, silverware, etc., and on •the twenty-second of that month he made to the plaintiff a chattel mortgage thereon, to secure the sum of eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and thirty-twO' cents, due in six months. The mortgage, by its terms, gave to the mortgagor the right to sell, in the usual course of trade, from the stock, and from the proceeds of the sales to keep the stock at the present value; the mortgage to cover the…