Armstrong v. Home Service Stores

The appeal in this case was dismissed, anle, 231, for failure to comply with the rules; but, on motion and completion of the record, it has been reinstated.

A single question is presented for decision: Is a chattel mortgage duly authorized by a corporation and signed in its name by its president and attested by its secretary void for failure to attach the corporate seal? We think not.

It was said in Duke v. Markham, 105 N. C., 131, 10 S. E., 1017, 18 Am. St. Rep., 889, that a seal is not essential to the validity of a chattel mortgage whether executed by an individual or a corporation.

The party…