Greer v. Church & Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 44 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM KENTON CIRCUIT COURT. , 1. In order to create a lien for the purchase-price of a chattel, as ■against a purchaser without notice, there must be a conveyance or mortgage to that effect, acknowledged and lodged for record as prescribed by the statute.
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Case 44 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM KENTON CIRCUIT COURT. , 1. In order to create a lien for the purchase-price of a chattel, as ■against a purchaser without notice, there must be a conveyance or mortgage to that effect, acknowledged and lodged for record as prescribed by the statute. (Vaughn v. Hopson, 10 Bush, 337.) 2. In this case the transaction was evidently a sale, and the device of a lease was resorted to to evade the registration laws of this state.. 3. The provision of the Civil Code, requiring a party suing out an order of delivery to make affidavit that his cause of action has…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE CO FEB
delivered the opinion or the court.
January, 1876, the appellees brought this suit in the Kenton Circuit Court against the appellant for the recovery of one , Behring & Klix piano, No. 4,617, alleging that they were the owners thereof, and that it was in'the possession of the appellant, who unlawfully and without right detained it from their possession.
The appellant admitted the piano was in his possession, but denied that the appellees were the owners, or entitled to the possession.
On the trial the appellees, to prove title in themselves, read to the jury the following contract,…
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