Ward v. Sumner
22 Mass. 59
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Bluebook
Ward v. Sumner, 22 Mass. 59 (Mass. 1827).
Opinion
We think this is a mortgage and not a pledge. Whether it should be considered as one or the other, depends on the intent of the parties ; and as the chattels were not delivered into the possession of the plaintiffs, it could not be a pledge.1
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