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59 Me. 564

Partridge v. White

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1871

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1871-07-01

ON EXCEPTIONS. Trover wherein the plaintiff claims to recover the value of a stock of goods in Brunswick, in the county of Cumberland. The plaintiff claimed to hold by virtue of a mortgage from one Strout to him, dated Dec. 29, 1868, to secure $700 and interest. The defendant claimed, by virtue of a mortgage from said Strout, to one Thompson, deceased, to secure $300 and interest, dated April 8, 1864.

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Decided 1871-07-01

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Appleton, C. J.

¶1The mortgage to Samuel Thompson, under which the defendant justifies, was of “ the goods and chattels now in my store in Brunswick aforesaid, a schedule of which is here*566unto annexed.” This could only cover those, then in tbe store, of which a schedule was made. The case of Abbott v. Goodwin, 20 Maine, 408, does not apply.

¶2Whether Brown had authority originally to take the mortgage under which the plaintiff claims is immaterial. His action has been affirmed by the bringing of this suit. The defendant cannot complain, for his right was to the goods mortgaged to Thompson, and the jury by their verdict, under proper instructions, have found that none of those are embraced in the plaintiff’s claim, or that the mortgage was discharged.

¶3The rulings of the presiding justice were in strict accordance with law. Exceptions overruled.

CuttiNg, Kent, Walton, Barrows, Danfobtti, and Tap-ley, JJ., concurred.
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