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46 Mich. 102

Winchester v. King

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 27, 1881

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1881-04-27

Replevin for goods which plaintiff claims to have placed in defendant’s hands under a contract, and which defendant mortgaged to one Forrest. Plaintiff brings error.

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Reversed · Decided 1881-04-27

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Marston, C. J.

¶1We are of opinion that the court erred in the instructions given relating to the chattel mortgage placed upon the goods by King. The plaintiff had a right to have the case submitted to the jury upon the theory that the goods mortgaged had been furnished by him under the written contract of March 26th, and in this view of the case the court was requested to charge the jury that giving a chattel mortgage thereon to Forrest would be such a “ termination of the bailment as to entitle the plaintiff to the possession of the goods.” This was refused, but the court did charge that placing a chattel mortgage thereon with intent to deprive the plaintiff of the proceeds of the goods, if done fraudulently, would justify the plaintiff in rescinding the agreement.

¶2The intention with which the act was done would be immaterial. It was an assumption of ownership by King, *103and wholly inconsistent with the title claimed by Winchester under the contract. The effect as to Winchester’s rights was the same, whatever the intent of King may have been.

¶3For this error the judgment must be reversed with costs and a new trial ordered.

The other Justices concurred.
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