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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Recent Legal Decisions.
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CHATTEL MORTGAGE LIEN—FORECLOSURE*
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PATENTS ISSUED JULY l 6 , 1 8 9 5 .
the use of which all keys are reduced to two
(C major and A minor) so that the work
required in learning to play is reduced.
542,719. Stringing Musical Instruments.
Emanuel Wahner, Vienna, Austria-Hun-
gary- The end of the string is provided
with a grooved spool adapted to be en-
gaged over the hitching peg of the instru-
ment.
542,533. Musical Instrument.
W. B.
Owen, New York, N. Y., and J. H.
Crowell, Vineyard Haven, Mass., assignors
to the C. F. Zimmerman Co., Dolgeville,
N. Y. The dampers are normally held
—The Supreme Court of Georgia held, in
the recent case of Benton vs. McCord, that
a mortgagee of chattels, whose mortgage has
been duly executed and recorded, though
possession remain in the mortgagor, is
nevertheless entitled to have preserved in
its integrity his lien iipon the mortgaged
property until such time as he may see
proper by foreclosure to enforce the pay-
ment of the debt secured, and that by vir-
tue of his interest as mortgagee he may
maintain an action on the case as against a
third person having notice, achial or con-
structive, of the mortgage, who wrongfully
or fraudulently destroys or impairs his se-
curity, and in such action may recover to
the extent that his security has been thus
diminished damages within the value of
the mortgaged property and not in excess
of the debt secured.
INSOLVENCY —MORTGAGE — EYIDENCE.—
542,788.
Musical Instrument.
Ger-
hard Almcrantz, Chicago, 111. Has a double
neck, thereby increasing the range of the
instrument. The neck and bridge are se-
cured to the body by screw bolts so that
they may be readily detached when it is
desired to clean the body.
from the wires by coiled springs and are
forced against the wires by levers pressing
on their upper sides.
The Banner of Wissner.
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542.271.
Transposing Keyboard for
Pianos and Organs.
W. S. Moses, Tracy,
Minn. A supplemental keyboard is pro-
vided above the regular keyboard, the keys
of said supplemental keyboard being ex-
tended at both ends and pivoted to a slid-
ing board designed to be moved to the
right or left, a distance equal to the width
of the keys in the extension. Means are
provided to elevate and slide the said
board and lock the same in any desired
position.
542.272. Keyboard for Pianos and Or-
gans. W. S. Moses, Tracy, Minn.
A
different operating mechanism from that
shown in the preceding patent to the same
inventor. The object of these inventions
is to provide an attachment or keyboard by
LOWLY but surely the Wissner banner
is being raised in all sections of the
United States.
The Wissner colors are
planted firmly in Brooklyn, Jersey City,
Newark, and in the great city of Chicago.
Then are branches which are controlled
direct from .the parent house, Wissner Hall,
Brooklyn. Aside from these branches there
are a large number of the leading dealers
who have firmly attested to their belief in
the Wissner by securing the agency.
There are reasons for this success, and in
analyzing the causes which have led up to
the successful business which Mr. Wissner
has established, we must consider first,
that he has manufactured instruments
which in themselves possess intrinsic merit.
It was an inherent faith in his piano,
backed by the strong, energetic and earnest
movements such as have been made by him
in different sections of the country that
have assisted to place the Wissner piano
where it is to-day. With those elements of
faith which are essential to success, backed
up by the qualities- of the instrument itself,
truly the path of the Wissner has been on-
ward—and lies still onward.
In the case of Nicolay vs. Mallery et al.,
decided recently by the Supreme Court of
Minnesota, it appeared that in insolvency
proceedings under the insolvency law of
1881 a judgment was entered releasing the
insolvent from all claims held by the cred-
itors filing releases.
A creditor filed a
claim and a release of the same and took a
dividend. He held another separate and
distinct claim secured by mortgage, which
he did not file and on which he received
no dividend. The court held that while
the personal liability of the insolvent was
released as to this claim, the mortgage se-
curity was not, and that on the trial of an
action to set aside a transfer of property
on the ground tha,t it was made with in-
tent to defraud the creditors of the trans-
fer, the inquiry should generally be allowed
to take a wide range and much latitude
should be allowed on cross-examination.
The Court reversed the judgment for
failure to observe this rule.
WILL—BANK
STOCK—INSURANCE.—The
Kentucky Court of Appeals held, in the re-
cent case of Waters et al. vs. Waters, Ex-
ecutor, et al., that where a testator had by
the second clause of his will set apart cer-
tain shares of bank stock, the dividends
upon which were to be used in keeping in
force a policy of insurance upon the life of
his niece, and then provided by the fifth
clause of his will that upon the death of
his niece the proceeds of the insurance
policy and the bank stock should become a
part of his estate, "to be divided as the
remainder thereof as hereinafter directed to
be divided," neither the insurance policy
nor the bank stock was to be considered as
a part of the testator's estate in estimating
what the widow was entitled to under the
third clause of the will, giving her one-
half the estate, and that a tract of land spe-
cifically devised by the fourth clause of the
will was not to be regarded as a part of the
estate in estimating the share of the widow
as that of the other legatees ordistributees.