Elliott v. Washington

— Action instituted before a justice of the peace for the sum of $125 alleged to be the value of a mare, which was the property of plaintiff and was unlawfully converted by defendant to his own use. The animal was an iron-gray mare, three years old, which had belonged previously to Garrett Delaney. Said owner had executed a chattel mortgage on her to plaintiff, dated July 1, 1905, to secure a note of the same date for $191.90. The mortgage also embraced other property, and never was recorded. Delaney and his wife had lived on a farm in Lincoln county, but after the execution of the mortgage…