McHenry v. Huff
McHenry v. Huff
Opinion of the Court
The facts as shown by the undisputed evidence are, in substance, as follows : The note in suit was given by the defendants to Robert Hall on June 22, 1883. Hall has since died, and the plaintiff is his administrator. Hall was anxious to collect his note of the defendants. The defendants held a note of some sixteen hundred dollars on one Long, secured by a chattel mortgage on some cattle which were then being fattened for market. An arrangement was made by which both notes and the chattel mortgage were deposited with the Boyer Yalley Bank, and when the cattle should be marketed the proceeds were to be applied in payment of the defendant’s note to Hall. The cattle were marketed, and the money for which they were sold was received by, the bank. When the money was received the defendants appeared promptly at the bank, and demanded. that the money should be placed to their credit on private account The bookkeeper of the bank testified to the transaction as follows : “ Huff & Chaffee got the money on this Long note, which was secured by • chattel mortgage on the cattle which were sold in Chicago.” These are the plain, unvarnished facts, as shown by the evidence. ,
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