Phillips v. Oswald
Phillips v. Oswald
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The plaintiff brought this action to recover the value of a certain bay colt, alleged to have been seized and converted to their own use by the defendants. The defendants answered; setting up as a defence to the action that the colt was taken possession of by defendant Oswald, under the power and authority to that end, contained in a chattel mortgage given by plaintiff to said defendant, and by him sold, in execution of said power, at public outcry, and bought by the defendant Williams. A copy of this chattel mortgage is set out in the “Case,” but it is not necessary to refer to it further than to say that it does contain the power of sale above referred to, in case of the non-payment, at maturity, of the note which it was given to secure. The “Case” is very meagre — does not set out, or even state, any of the testimony offered except copies of the note and mortgage, and we can only gather from the charge of the Circuit Judge, which seems to be set out in full in the “Case,” the point upon which the case was made to turn in the court below. We infer from the charge that there was testimony tending to show that the plaintiff was a married woman at the time of the execution of the note and mortgage referred to, and that the case was treated as if the same were executed after the passage of the act of 1887, and before the passage of the act of 1891, although both the note and mortgage were dated on the 30th day of December, 1891, and the last mentioned act was approved on the 23d of December, 1891. But we suppose that inasmuch as the act of 1891 did not go into effect until the expiration of twenty days from its approval, the case was regarded as controlled by the provisions of the act of 1887. At all events, no question is
Under this view of the case, the points presented by the first and second exceptions presented by the defendant Oswald, do not arise and, therefore, need not be considered.
The judgment of this court is, that the judgment of the Circuit Court be reversed, and the case remanded to that court for a new trial.
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- PHILLIPS v. OSWALD
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- 1. Exceptions imputing error to the trial judge in refusing to charge certain propositions of law, will not be considered where the “Case” fails to show that he was requested so to charge. 2. Married Women — Sale Under Power. — A married woman having full power of alienation under the Constitution, cannot impeach, except for fraud, a sale made under a power contained in a chattel mortgage executed by her. Neal v. Bleckley, 36 S. 0., 468, followed.