General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Seattle Ass'n of Credit Men

On Rehearing.

Main, J.

The facts in this case are stated in the Departmental opinion, 190 Wash. 284, 67 P. (2d) 882, and need not here be repeated, except incidentally.

In that opinion, two questions were considered; one, whether title to new automobiles, under what is referred to as a trust receipt, was in the dealer or in the finance company. It was held that the title had passed to the dealer because the trust receipt had not been filed, under the recording acts, either as a con ditional bill of sale or as a chattel mortgage. The other question was whether the title to automobiles which had…