McCormack Bros. Motor Car Co. v. State

It is true that in the ease of Flint Motor Car Co. v. State, 204 Ala. 437, 85 So. 741, qualifying and explaining the Lexington and Crosswaite Cases there cited, we held that a mortgagee or conditional vendor was not an insurer of the subsequent conduct of the mortgagor or vendee, but we also held that, in order to overcome or rebut the prima facie ease made out by the state growing out of the seizure of a vehicle while transporting prohibited liquor, it was necessary to show, by said mortgagee or conditional vendor, that he not only did not know that said vehicle was being so used, but had…