Court Opinion

ID: 9417211
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 20:06:33.982643+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:38.543797
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Mr. Justice Field, with whom concurred Mr. Justice Swayne and Mr. Justice Bradley,
delivered the following opinion: —>
I concur in the decree of reversal in this, case, but I go further than the majority of the court. I think that the chattel mortgages were properly filed with the register in the city of New York. The mortgagors were partners doing business there. They are described in the mortgages as of that city. The property mortgaged was furniture in a hotel situated there, and it is to the records of the city that one would naturally resort to ascertain whether- there were any liens upon it. The domicile of a firm, under the law requiring chattel mortgages to be filed in the county where the mortgagors reside, is, in my judgment, tbe place where it is located and carries on its business. I am of opinion, therefore, that the chattel mortgages in this case held -the property against the judgments of the creditors.