Ramstetter v. MacGinnis

The defendant in error, plaintiff below, was awarded a deficiency judgment of $2,461.50 in a foreclosure action on a chattel mortgage given by plaintiffs in error, defendants below, to secure payment of a note for $5,500 given in payment for thirteen hundred fifty head of sheep which they purchased from him. The parties will be referred to as plaintiff and defendants, respectively, as they appeared in the trial court.

During the summer of 1934 the plaintiff owned the sheep in question. About the first of August he rented a pasture from defendant, Matilda Ramstetter, and ranged the sheep there,…