37 Iowa 374 | Iowa | 1873
Both parties claim the right to the possession of the mare, under mortgages executed by the same person. Plaintiff’s mortgage was executed December 15, 1871, and described the property as follows: “ All my right, title and interest in and to one chestnut mare, with a bald face and white feet; aged about six years.”
Defendant’s mortgage was executed December 6, 1871, and duly recorded the next day, and described the property as follows : “ One sorrel mare, between five and six years old, with white spot on her face, and four white legs.”
The testimony shows that the mortgagor owned two mares, which “ were nearer alike than the two descriptions in these mortgages; ” that the mare in controversy was about six years old, and would be called a chestnut, a sorrel or a chestnut-sorrel ; that she would properly be said to have a bald face, a white spot in forehead, or a large star in the forehead, with a blaze on the nose and a strip of mixed white down the face; that one hind foot was white to the pastern joint, and there was a little white on another foot, and that the mane and tail were black, or nearly so. This is all the evidence. There was no effort to show by evidence aliunde the mortgage that the mare in controversy was or was not the one intended to be described in the defendant’s mortgage.
Reversed»