Averill v. Irish
Averill v. Irish
Opinion of the Court
All the objections, which the defendant has made in argument to the plaintiff’s right to retain his verdict, must be overruled, on the authority of previous decisions.
1. In Harding v. Coburn, 12 Met. 333, and in Codman v. Freeman, 3 Cush. 306, it was held, (notwithstanding a dictum to the contrary in an earlier case,) that when a mortgagee of goods demands payment of an attaching creditor or officer, under the Rev. Sts. c. 90, §§ 78, 79, he need not specifically designate the articles enumerated in the mortgage. On this point, Jones v. Richardson, 10 Met. 481, is not distinguishable from the case at bar.
2. 3. The objection, that the plaintiff cannot maintain this action, for the reason that the mortgaged goods were intermixed with other goods of the mortgagor, is answered by the decision in Harding v. Coburn, before cited. The same case answers also the defendant’s last objection. The mortgagee there stated to the officer, as the plaintiff did in the present case, that he had a mortgage of the property which the officer had attached, and
Exceptions overruled.
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