Ticknor v. McClelland

Citations

• 84 Ill. 471

Syllabus

<p>1. Sale of growing crops—delivery. In case of the sale of standing crops the possession is in the vendee until it is time to harvest them, and until then he is not required to take manual possession of them.</p> <p>2. Sales—manual delivery of ponderous goods, noi required. Where goods are ponderous and incapable of being handed over from one to another, there need not be a manual delivery, but it is different where the property is capable of being immediately removed.</p> <p>3. Same—;fraudulent, if possession retained, by vendor. Any sale of personal property, where it remains with the vendor, if it is that character of property that is capable of being removed, is fraudulent in law as to creditors and subsequent purchasers, notwithstanding the sale may he in good faith, and for a valuable consideration.</p> <p>4. Chattel mobtgage—before whom should be acknowledged. A chattel mortgage may be acknowledged before a police magistrate of a village, by a resident of the township in which the village is situated, although he is not a resident or voter in the village.</p>