W. W. Kimball Co. v. Mellon
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Replevin for a piano. The facts are fully stated in the opinion. The defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. They contended, inter alia, that there are two chattel mortgages, not contracts of conditional sale, with negotiable notes, and that the respondent’s is paramount because first transferred and the only one filed. R. S. sec. 2317; Porter v. Pa/rmly, 43 How.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Replevin for a piano. The facts are fully stated in the opinion. The defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. They contended, inter alia, that there are two chattel mortgages, not contracts of conditional sale, with negotiable notes, and that the respondent’s is paramount because first transferred and the only one filed. R. S. sec. 2317; Porter v. Pa/rmly, 43 How. Pr. 445; PLeroey v. P. 1. L. Works, 93 U. S. 664; Keryford v. Davis, 102 id. 235; Gadle v. McLean, 48 Wis. 630; Williams v. Porter, 41 id. 422; Lillie v.…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 3,1891:
Qktoxt, J.
The respondent is a corporation in the business of manufacturing and selling pianos, in the city of Chicago, and one H. H. Heinpsted was in the business of selling pianos and other musical instruments in the city of Milwaukee, and in April, 1885, they entered into an agreement of the following terms:
In consideration of having the exclusive agency to sell pianos for the corporation, Hempsted agrees to sell all instruments ordered, within thirty days from shipment, and promptly remit to the company cash or approved customers’ contracts with…
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