Booth v. Oliver

This is an action of replevin to recover possession of a planer and other machinery in a planing-mill in the city of Escanaba, in Delta county.

The defendant is one of the lessors of the mill, and the plaintiffs claim the property by virtue of a chattel mortgage executed by Harris Brothers, the lessees of the mill.

On the first day of March, 1878, Nelson Ludington and others executed and delivered to the defendant,- John F. Oliver, and Frederick O. Clark, a paid-up lease for the term *665of seven years of the premises upon which said planing-mill was sduated. The lease contained an agreement that…