Brawner v. Elkhorn Production Credit Ass'n

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, C. J.:

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether the lien of a chattel mortgage on an automobile, executed and recorded in Wisconsin in full compliance with the statutes of that state has precedence over the rights of a purchaser in Nevada who bought the automobile from the mortgagor for value and without knowledge of the chattel mortgage after the mortgagor, in violation of the terms of the mortgage, had driven the vehicle to this state.

The trial court properly answered this question in the affirmative.

The case was tried on the following agreed facts: In…