Case ID: mich_40/html/0705-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Marston, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas J. Fordyce v. Abraham Neal.
    
      Chattel mortgage — Description.
    The following description in a chattel mortgage is sufficient: “ all the cattle, consisting of two yoke, aged six and seven years, color, red, white and blue * * and all other property now in our possession in or about said village,” etc.
    ■Where several oxen are described in a mortgage as “red, white and blue,” the full description need not apply to each.
    Error to Isabella.
    Submitted April 18.
    Decided April 24.
    . Trover by Neal for the conversion of a yoke of oxen which he claimed to have bought from the owner, but which were taken by Fordyce as sheriff under a chattel mortgage made before he bought them. Defendant brings error.
    
      Fancher é Dodds for plaintiff in error.
    
      Brown é Leaton for defendant in error.
   Marston, J.

The only question presented in this case is as to the sufficiency cf a description of certain oxen in a chattel mortgage, which had been duly filed, as against one claiming to be a subsequent bona fide purchaser.

The description was: “all the cattle, consisting of two yoke, aged six and seven years, color, red, white and blue * ■ * and all other property now in our possession in or about said village,” etc.

This clearly must be held a good description within the rule laid down in Farwell et al. v. Fox, 18 Mich., 169; Willey v. Snyder, 34 Mich., 60. It was not necessary that the full description as given should apply to each ox.

The judgment must be reversed with costs and a ;new trial ordered.

The other Justices concurred.