77 Iowa 307 | Iowa | 1889
I. The plaintiff, F. G. Cole, brings this action to recover the possession of certain chattel property from the defendant, W. C. Green, sheriff, who took the same under an attachment as the property of George Wall. The plaintiff claims the property by virtue of a chattel mortgage from W all to him. The parties waived a jury, and the case was submitted to the court, and judgment entered against the defendant, and defendant appeals, assigning as errors: First, that the court erred in rendering judgment against the defendant, for the reason that there was no notice to defendant of the existence of said mortgage upon the stock of goods, either actual or constructive, prior to the levy of the attachment; second, that the court erred in rendering judgment against the defendant for the reason that the evidence shows that the mortgage given by Wall to Cole was fraudulent, and given for the purpose of aiding Wall to defraud his creditors, and was without consideration; third, that said mortgage did not impart notice of record, for the reason that the same was void for want of proper description and location. The mortgage is upon “all my restaurant stock, consisting of candies,” etc., describing the property particularly, “ now, in use in said restaurant, which is located on lot number 15, in block 13.” There is no other location given. The judgment shows that the court found that the defendant sheriff, through his deputy, who levied the attachment, had actual notice of the existence of the mortgage prior to the making of the levy, and this the court might very properly have found from the testimony, though there is conflict with
