Sheldon v. Mann
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Genesee. (Newton, J.) Bill to declare certain chattel mortgages to be in fact an assignment for the benefit of creditors with preferences, and to enforce the trust claimed to have been created thereby. Defendants Berdan & Co. and Seeor, Berdan & Co. appeal. The facts are stated in the opinion
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
The defendant Horace G. Mann resides in Mount Morris, a small village in Genesee county, Mich., and was engaged in 1890 in a general country store business. He had been in such business several years. May 22, 1890, he went to Toledo, Ohio, and while there, and on that day, executed three chattel' mortgages upon all his stock in trade and store fixtures and notes and accounts, — one for $740.33 to the defendant Orson J. Knapp, a farmer living near Mount Morris, to whom he was indebted in that amount; one to the defendants Secor, Berdan & Co., $4,083.79; and one to Berdan & *267Co., for $2,792.17;…
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