Downing v. Goddard

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a decree declaring the rights of the defendant, Western Development Co., Inc., hereinafter referred to as “the company”, arising out of an attachment of a tractor, paramount to the rights of plaintiff.

By his complaint, plaintiff seeks a reformation of a certain bill of sale executed by him to Orval Goddard, one of the defendants, claiming that said bill of sale was in fact a chattel mortgage, and that “through a mutual mistake of plaintiff and defendant, Orval Goddard, the said purported bill of sale does not truly set out or express what were to be the…