Mack v. Doak

Citations

• 50 Wash. 119
• 96 P. 825
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 679

Syllabus

<p>Chattel Mortgages — Foreclosure—Seizure by Sheriee — Authority-Notice — Conversion. Under Bal. Cpde, § 5872, providing that the notice of a chattel mortgage foreclosure shall be sufficient authority for the sheriff to take possession of the property, a sheriff is not guilty of conversion in seizing the mortgaged property under a proper notice and proceedings complying with the statute, although against the protests and objections of the' mortgagors, where the mortgagors did not contest the amount due or take any steps to secure a transfer of the .foreclosure to the superior court, pursuant to Bal. Code, § 5876.</p>