State Ex Rel. Yates-American MacHine Co. v. Superior Court

A suit was instituted in the superior court for Clark county by a creditor of the Oregon-Washington Door Company, a corporation, a judgment obtained and a permanent receiver appointed for it. Some of the property in the possession of the judgment debtor, which went into the possession of the receiver, was machinery bought under a conditional sales contract from relator.

Relator is engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling lumber mill machinery. In the course of its business, it sold the machines in question to the judgment debtor, attempting to reserve in itself title to the…