General Motors Acceptance Corporation v. Nuss

JANVIER, Judge (dissenting).

The question presented is simply this: Is a chattel mortgage on an automobile executed in the State of Missouri and there recorded in full compliance with Missouri law enforcihle in Louisiana as against an innocent third party, notwithstanding the •chattel mortgage has not been recorded in Louisiana.

It must be conceded that, in an overwhelming majority of American jurisdictions, it is well settled that “the interest of the mortgagee is not divested by any dealings with the chattel in the second state whether such dealings consist of a sale by the mortgagor to a…