Bowers v. Bodley

This was an action in trover by appellee against appellants, to recover for the alleged wrongful conversion of a lot of corn. The declaration also contains a count in case.

One John McBride, who planted and raised the corn, executed to Harmon Helmerick, on the 14th day of May, 1878, a chattel mortgage on eighty acres of growing corn, on the place where he then resided, recently planted by him, to secure a note to Helmerick for $342.50, due the first day of February, 1879.

By the terms of the mortgage, the possession of the property was to remain with the mortgagor, until default in payment,…