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43 Wis. 653

Mackey v. Stafford

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1878

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1878-01-15

Action to foreclose a mortgage of real estate, for a balance of tbe mortgage debt alleged to be d ue. The mortgage covered real estate belonging to each of tbe defendants Carver and Stafford, and also a mill with tbe land appurtenant, at Needsburg, owned by those defendants jointly as partners under the firm name of J. P. Stafford & Go.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1902

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Decided 1878-01-15

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Ryan, C. J.

¶1I concur in the judgment of this appeal, on the ground that the default of the defendant Carver is conclusive against any right he might have to question the respondent’s absolute title derived under the chattel mortgages, and that any right of the appellant to redeem under the chattel mortgages, or for an account of the amount realized by the respondent from the sale of the mortgaged chattels, is waived *665by and merged in the agreement of the 8 th of April, which he pleads. These positions of the two mortgagors are quite consistent. They had been partners, and gave the chattel mortgages as such. The one abandons all right under them; and the other takes a new right to himself alone, inconsistent with any right of the partnership to redeem or for an account, upon terms which he fails to fulfill. Both concur, therefore, in extinguishing the right of the partnership to redeem, or to question the respondent’s proceedings under the chattel mortgages. And the appellant establishes no right in himself under the agreement for his separate benefit.

¶2By the Court. — The judgment is affirmed.

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