Langdon v. Wintersteen

Irvine, C.

Hattie S. Wintersteen brought this action against Langdon to recover damages for the conversion of a stock of millinery goods. Langdon, besides a general denial and plea of res judicata, the merits of which are not presented for review,'pleaded that the plaintiff had executed to him a mortgage on the goods; that hé had taken possession and regularly sold them, and that they were insufficient to pay the debt secured by the mortgage. The plaintiff in reply pleaded that the mortgage was one executed by her to replace one which her husband, without title or authority, had previously…