Heitschmidt v. McAlpine
Appellate Court of Illinois
Replevin.—Appeal from the County Court of DeKalb County; the Hon. C. A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the December term, 1894.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
Thomas McAlpine, one of the appellees, held a chattel mortgage made by William Shoo February 27, 1894, to secure the payment of $95, due in nine months; and the mortgagor having absconded, he went on May 30,1894, with the appellee B. J. Holcomb, his agent, to take possession of the mortgaged property under an insecurity clause of the mortgage. Kate Shoo, the wife of the mortgagor, then turned over to appellees her cow, to take the place, as she said, of a cow owned by her husband and described in the mortgage, which he had sold, and they took her cow with the other property under that…
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