Bushnell v. Wood

The chattel mortgage given by Mrs. D. K. Dodge to plaintiff, covering the property in controversy, was regularly executed, acknowledged and recorded, and whether it was fraudulent as to creditors was a question of fact, upon which the evidence is quite conflicting, "and it was, therefore, a proper case for the consideration of a jury. Under instructions from the court sufficiently accurate, the jury found the mortgage was not fraudulent, and being older than the execution under which the property was seized by defendants, it was the prior lien and must prevail.

Declarations made by the…