Commercial Credit Corp. v. W. E. Caldwell Co.

CLAY, Commissioner.

This suit was brought to recover damages for the alleged conversion of a truck body which was repossessed and sold as a part of a truck subject to defendant’s recorded conditional sales contract. The case was tried as a court action without a jury, and a judgment was entered for plaintiff.

The Riggs Motor Company sold a Ford truck to one Nelson and he executed a conditional sales contract which described the vehicle as having a “garbage body”. This contract was assigned on the same day to defendant and was properly recorded. The truck delivered to Nelson consisted of a cab…