52 Iowa 581 | Iowa | 1879
Code, section 1923, provides as follows: “No sale or mortgage of personal property, where the vendor or mortgagor retains actual possession thereof, is valid against existing creditors or subsequent purchasers without notice, unless a written instrument conveying the same is executed and acknowledged like conveyances of real estate, and filed for record with the recorder of the county where the holder of the property resides.”
The court below held that the sale of the corn was not good against the plaintiff in execution, a creditor of Moorehouse. We think the ruling is correct. The statute contemplates that there shall be something to indicate the change of ownership — a change in the possession, which will give notice of the sale or put creditors or subsequent purchaser’s upon inquiry. Boothby v. Brown, 40 Iowa, 104; Hickok v. Buell et al., 51 Iowa, 655. In the case at bar there was no change in the possession; it remained in Moorehouse’s field subject to his control, as it had been before the sale. The feeding of a part of it by plaintiff did not affect the actual possession of what remained, which was still in Moorehouse.
Counsel for appellant insists that plaintiff could not have taken possession more fully and effectually than he did. If this be so, it does, not help his case. If the property was
Affirmed.