Commercial Acceptance Corp. v. Hislop Garage Co.

“Any person who shall, by himself or others, perform labor, furnish materials, or expend money, in repairing . . . any motor vehicle, under a contract expressed or implied with the legal or equitable owner, shall have a hen upon such motor vehicle, so long as the same shall remain in his possession, until the charges for such repairs . . . have been paid.” P. L., c. 217, s. 36. Under this statute the garage man who repairs an automobile at the request of a conditional vendee has a hen thereon which, if preserved, takes precedence over that of the conditional vendor. New Hampshire Finance…