Knoxville Outfitting Co. v. Knoxville, Fireproof Storage Co.

Mr. Chief Justice. Green

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a contest between the conditional vendor of a lot of household furnishings and a warehouseman with whom the goods were stored by the' conditional vendee. The warehouseman asserts that its lien is superior to the lien of the conditional vendor. The lower courts decided in favor of the warehouseman and the writ of certiorari was awarded by this court.

The Uniform Act regulating’ warehousemen and warehouse receipts was passed in 1909, it being chapter 336 of the Acts of that year. It is conceded that the warehouseman here was “a…