Case ID: ohio-cc-ns_13/html/0224-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

INDEFINITE DESCRIPTION IN CHATTEL MORTGAGE.
    Circuit Court of Hamilton County.
    Stephen J. Burke v. L. C. Linkmyer.
    Decided, January 15, 1910.
    A chattel mortgage covering “one registered Jersey bull” is void for uncertainty, where it appears that at the time the instrument was executed the mortgagor was the owner of three registered Jersey bulls.
    
      Charles W. Hoffman, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. C. Smith, contra.
   Per Curiam.

The judgment in this ease should be reversed and judgment rendered for the plaintiff in error, for the reason that the property mortgaged, to-wit, “one registered Jersey bull,” is too indefinite, the mortgagor at the time having three registered Jersey bulls.

The mortgage itself should have contained some words of description which would have enabled one to have ascertained which of the.three Jersey registered bulls was intended to be mortgaged, there being on the farm of the mortgagor three registered Jersey bulls, each one answering the description contained in-the mortgage. No one is described in particular, and the description is void for uncertainty. 81 Mo., 532; 57 Miss., 89; 40 Mich., 203; 62 Vt., 206; Jones on Chattel Mortgages, Section 56a; Cobby on Chattel Mortgages, Section 15-9.