LEGAL DOCUMENT

Case: James Fournier vs. James Wilson
Citation: 19 R.I. 15
Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1893-03-08
Docket Number: 
Pages: 15–15
Volume: 19
Reporter: Rhode Island Reports

Parties: James Fournier vs. James Wilson.

James Fournier vs. James Wilson.
A declaration in 'assumpsit wliicb. alleges tlie making and recording of a chattel mortgage, non-payment of the mortgage debt, sale of the mortgaged property under execution, and refusal of the officer who made the sale to apply the proceeds of sale on mortgagee’s demand to the payment of the mortgage debt, states a cause of action in favor of the mortgagee against the officer under Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 223, § 6, which provides that on sale of mortgaged personalty under an execution the proceeds shall be applied to the payment of the mortgage debt and the balance to the amount due on the execution.
Assumpsit. Certified from the Common Pleas Division on demurrer to the declaration.
Joseph Osfielcl, Jim., for plaintiff.
Jacob W. Mcdhetuson, for defendant.
March 8, 1893.

Per Curiam.
We are of the opinion that the first count in the declaration, to which the defendant has demurred, sufficiently states a cause of action. It sets forth the making and delivery of a certain note, and mortgage securing its payment, by one Isaac Fournier to the plaintiff, the record of the mortgage in the office of the town clerk of Lincoln, in which' town, as shown by the mortgage made a part of the count, the mortgagor resided at the making of the mortgage, the non-payment in full of the mortgage debt, the sale under execution against the mortgagor of the horse, a part of the mortgaged property, and the ref usal of the defendant who made the sale on demand by the plaintiff to pay to him the proceeds of the sale. Pub. Stat. E. I. cap. 2^8, § 6, provides that the proceeds of the sale of mortgaged personal estate under execution shall be applied to the payment of the amount due on the mortgage in the first instance, and the balance only to the payment of the amount due on the execution.
The count is sustained and the demurrer overruled. Case remitted to the Common Pleas Division for trial.