25 Fla. 283 | Fla. | 1889
Our statute in reference to chattel mortgages provides that no mortgage of personal property shall be effectual or valid to any purpose whatever, unless such mortgage shall be recorded in the office of records for the county in which the mortgaged property shall be at the time of the execution of the mortgage, unless the mortgaged ptoperty be delivered at the time of execution of the mortgage, or within twenty days thereafter, to the mortgagee,-and shall continue to remain truly and bona fide in his possession,” McClellan’s Dig., section 1, p. 213. This in
In this case there was a foreclosure of a mortgage on personalty, the property not having been delivered, and no valid record of the mortgage made till after the debt it was given to secure became due. There had been a previous record, but without any proof or acknowledgment of the
It is onr opinion the decree should be affirmed, and it is so ordered.