Hess v. Starwich

On March 16,1925, one Priebe filed suit in King county against W. Davis for the recovery of $420 claimed to be due for merchandise. At that time a writ of attachment was issued out of the superior court to the sheriff o'f King county, who attached, on April 8, an auto trailer then in Davis’ possession, and being used by him. This trailer had been sold to Davis under a conditional sale contract in 1923, and at the time of the attachment he was behind in'his payments. He wrote to the Hess Motor Company at Bellingham, who owned the conditional sale contract, advising them that the sheriff had…