9 S.D. 489 | S.D. | 1897
This action between mortgagees for the wrongful conversion of personal property, resulted in a judgment in favor of the defendants, and plaintiff appeals therefrom, and from an order overruling a motion for a new trial.
On the 17th day of August, 1895, John and Mike Bies made to appellant a chattel mortgage upon the following personal property: c ‘One-half of the wheat raised during the year 1895 on the northwest quarter (i) of section six (6) in township one hundred three (103), in range fifty-four (54), in McCook county, South Dakota;” and for a defense to this action to recover the value of the property thus described respondents rely upon a foreclosed chattel mortgage, executed by Mike Bies to N. J. Schmidt on the 1st day of December, 1893, which contains the following recital: “Know all men by these presents, that I, Mike Bies, of the town of Brookfield, county of McCook, South Dakota, of the first part, in consideration of three hundred sixty-two and 35-100 dollars, to me paid by M. G. Schmidt of Salem, South Dakota, party of the second part, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have bargained and sold and by these presents do grant and convey, unto the said party of the second part, their heirs and assigns, the following goods and chattels, to-wit: My one-half share of all crops raised upon the S. W. 4, Sec. 31 — 104—54; also the N. W. 4, Sec. 6— 103 — 54,—consisting of wheat, oats, corn, and other grains as