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  "name": "Alonzo L. Bushnell et al. v. Herman K. Wood",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bushnell v. Wood",
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  "first_page": "88",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Alonzo L. Bushnell et al. v. Herman K. Wood."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Scott\ndelivered the opinion of the Court:\nThe chattel mortgage given by Mrs. D. K. Dodge to plaintiff, covering the property in controversy, was regularly executed, acknowledged and recorded, and whether it was fraudulent as to creditors was a question of fact, upon which the evidence is quite conflicting, \"and it was, therefore, a proper case for the consideration of a jury. Under instructions from the court sufficiently accurate, the jury found the mortgage was not fraudulent, and being older than the execution under which the property was seized by defendants, it was the prior lien and must prevail.\nDeclarations made by the mortgagor at the time she was executing the mortgage, were a part of the res gestee, and were admissible in evidence.\nThat the property was in possession of defendants we do not entertain the slightest doubt, under the evidence in the record.\nThe judgment will be affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Scott"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. Hughes & McCart, for the appellants.",
      "Messrs. Stevenson & Ewing, for the appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Alonzo L. Bushnell et al. v. Herman K. Wood.\n1. Chattel mortgage\u2014whether fraudulent, a question of fact. Where a chattel mortgage is regularly executed, acknowledged and recorded before the issue of an execution, it will give a prior lien, and whether it is fraudulent as to creditors is a question of fact for the jury, under proper instructions.\n3. Evidence\u2014res gestee. Declarations made by the mortgagor at the time of executing a chattel mortgag\u00e9, are a part of the res gestee, and admissible in evidence.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding.\nMessrs. Hughes & McCart, for the appellants.\nMessrs. Stevenson & Ewing, for the appellee."
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