Standard Oil Co. v. La Crosse Super Auto Service, Inc.

The opinion of the court concedes that “if the gasoline pumps and tanks when installed *247were common-law fixtures, then they were subject to the lien of the Woolley mortgage, and could not be removed without the consent of Woolley. Fuller-Warren Co. v. Harter, 110 Wis. 80, 85 N. W. 698.” Thus the only difference between the parties is whether the tank and pumps were common-law fixtures.

There is great diversity among the cases as to what is a fixture, depending on whether the question arises between landlord and tenant, owner and lessee of a tenant, vendor and vendee, mortgagor and mortgagee, or…