Morrow v. Reed
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. Morrow brought his action to recover of the defendants the value of certain logs alleged to have been unlawfully taken from his possession by defendants and converted to their use.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. Morrow brought his action to recover of the defendants the value of certain logs alleged to have been unlawfully taken from his possession by defendants and converted to their use. The answer alleged that the defendants, under the firm name of “ The Howard Mill Company,” were the owners of the logs in question, and were entitled to and had actual possession of the same at the time of the alleged conversion, by virtue of purchase thereof from the former owners, Daniel and' Einley McDonald, as well as by virtue of the payment of certain-liens on…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
A number of objections have been taken to tbe validity of tbe chattel mortgages upon which tbe plaintiff claimed to bold tbe logs in controversy. It is said that they do not contain a sufficient description of tbe mortgaged property to enable a third person to identify it; that they refer in part to after acquired property: that a portion of tbe logs embraced *84in the mortgages were marked logs, and therefore the law required the mortgages to be recorded in the office of the inspector of lumber for the district; and that the mortgages were never properly filed in the office of the town clerk,…
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