Adamson v. Petersen

This action is for the alleged conversion, by the defendant, of 10,000 feet of one-inch pine lumber. The plaintiff’s interest is that of mortgagee, the mortgage having been executed to I him by one Nelson, the owner of the lumber, July 13, 1885. The defendant asserts title as purchaser from Nelson on the 16th day of July, 1885, and denies that the plaintiff’s mortgage included this I property. It appears by the evidence that Nelson was operating a planing-mill in Minneapolis, at No. 1,322 Washington avenue north. |The mortgage, received in evidence against the defendant’s objection, described…