General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Smith

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Katzenbach, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of nonsuit entered at the trial of a replevin action instituted in the Essex County Circuit Court. The Eoley Chevrolet Motor Sales Company entered into a contract of conditional sale with one Richard Dietzel, of Newark, by which the Eoley company agreed to sell and Dietzel agreed to buy upon the installment plan one new Chevrolet car. The contract was in the usual form of such an agreement, reserving title in the seller until the car was fully paid for, and requiring that the purchaser shall not transfer…