Edgell v. Hart

Action to recover possession of personal property seized by the defendant as sheriff of Monroe county, on execution against one Bostwick. In 1848, the plaintiff, owning a stock of goods, sold them to Bostwick, and received for them his notes, payable in monthly instalments, secured by a chattel mortgage upon the goods sold, with a provision that the mortgagor should retain possession of the goods until default, unless he or some other person should attempt to sell or remove them, which should entitle the mortgagee to take possession. There was a schedule of the goods, attached to the…