McMahel v. Smith

This is an action of debt brought by the appellant, as plaintiff in the circuit court of Wabash county, to recover of appellee, defendant below, the statutory penalty of one-third' of the value of the personal property sold by the appellee under a chattel mortgage, in which appellant and appellee are respectfully mortgagor and mortgagee, for the alleged failure of the appellee to comply with the provisions of section 2 of chapter 95, 28, Cahill’s Illinois Revised Statutes 1929, governing the sale of mortgaged chattel property. The record is presented on purported errors in the pleadings and…