Werner v. Graley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J.:

M. Y. Graley brought this action to recover the possession of a set of tinner’s tools, stock, and some manufactured tinware, from Rosa Werner and Emil Werner. For some time Graley had occupied a portion of the storeroom of Kearney & Parsons, who had a stock of hardware, in Wichita. They executed a chattel mortgage on their stock of hardware to Rosa Werner, to secure a debt of $3,000 which they owed to her. Afterward, she, by her husband and agent, Emil Werner, took possession of the stock of hardware under the chattel mortgage, and at the…