...efficiency.' Ch. 279. — Mortgages of personal property. Every mortgage of personal property, not accompanied by an immediate delivery and ' followed...change of possession of the things mortgaged,' shall be void ' as against the creditors of the mortgagor and subsequent purchasers and mortgagees, in good...

...declares that — "Every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as such of. goods and chattels, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery...subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith, unless the mortgage, having annexed thereto an affidavit or affirmation made and subscribed by the holder...

...every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels hereafter made, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery,...subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith, unless the mortgage, having annexed thereto an affidavit or affirmation made and subscribed by the holder...

...of 1878 (PL of 1878 p. 139) declares that every •chattel mortgage made after it shall take effect, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery...things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against creditors, * * * unless the mortgage, or a true copy of it, having annexed thereto an affidavit, *...

...Mortgage act of May 2d, 1895 (Rev. Sup. p. 491), provides "that every mortgage of goods and chattels * * * shall be absolutely void as against the creditors...subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith, unless the mortgage have annexed thereto an affidavit stating the consideration of said mortgage and as nearly...

...notice by the filing of the mortgage. The words of the statute are that chattel mortgages " sh...i be absolutely void as against the creditors of the...subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith, unless the mortgage, or a true copy thereof, shall be filed as directed, &c." It makes two classes of persons...

...plainly declared that if the mortgagor retained possession of the things mortgaged, the mortgage should be absolutely void as against the creditors of the...subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith, unless it was made a matter of public record. By the statute as revised in 1875, the mortgagee was required,...

...possession of the mortgaged chattels, and continues in the actual and constant possession of them, it is absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor,...subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith. Kee. p. 709 §§ 39, 40; DeCourcey v. Collins, 6 CE Gr. 357. The complainant is clothed with a dual...

...agarnst creditors, whether they know of it or not, which is not made a matter of public record, or accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed...continued change of possession of the things mortgaged. If the mortgagor retains possession, the mortgage is void as to creditors, unless it is placed where...

...against him. The argument on both sides has proceeded upon the assumption that the mortgage was not "accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed...continued change of possession of the things mortgaged," and that therefore the Chattel Mortgage act applies to this case. The bill does not allege that there...