Baxter v. Smith

Opinion by

Hoyt, Associate Justice.

A large number of suits were pending in the Court below against the firm of Kerns Brothers and certain rafts of logs owned by them, a part of said logs being marked “ K.,” and the rest “ I. K.” All of said suits were consolidated by consent, and adjudication had, establishing the order in which the claims of the several plaintiffs should attach to the fund in the Registry of the Court, which had been derived from a sale of said logg.

Baxter, the appellant herein, claimed by virtue of a chattel mortgage duly executed, and covering that portion of said logs…