Wheeler v. Bedell

Campbell, C. J*.

Plaintiff as mortgagee and as purchaser on a chancery foreclosure under his mortgage brought this action to recover a planing machine which was mortgaged as a chattel during the foreclosure of his real estate security and taken away under the chattel mortgage. The whole controversy turns on whether the machine was part of the realty..

On the 23d of February, 1875, plaintiff lent Reuben Wheeler $2,500, payable in two years with interest, and took as security a mortgage which describes by metes and bounds a parcel of land on the canal in Grand Rapids sixty by one hundred and…