Case ID: fla_43/html/0435-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Taylor, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Barney Cavanaugh Hardware Company, a Corporation, The Standard Guano and Chemical Manufacturing Company, a Corporation, Thomas G. Bush, Jasper S. Knight and Robert F. Neville, Copartners Under the Firm Name and Style of T. G. Bush & Company, and Louis Lowenstein and Marcus Lowenstein, Copartners Under the Firm Name and Style of Lowenstein Brothers, Plaintiffs in Error, vs. Henry H. Lewis and William A. Lewis, Copartners Under the Firm Name and Style of Lewis and Brother, and Callie H. Lewis, Defendants in Error.
    Claim — Chattel 'Mortgage with no right to possession can not maintain.
    A party holding a bare mortgage upon personal property in this State, with no right to present possession of such property, cannot maintain a statutory claim proceeding for - such property, as against attaching creditors of the mortgagor thereof.
    Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Jackson -County.
    The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court.
    
      Benj. S. Liddon, for Plaintiffs in Error.
    
      John H. Carter, Wilson & Bóone and R. H. Walker, for Defendants in Error.
    (Mr. Justice Carter, being disqualified, took no part in the decision of this case.)
   Taylor, C. J.

On the 8th day of November, 1892, the defendants in error filed their petition in the Circuit Court of Jack' son county against the plaintiffs in error as follows

In the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Florida.