Burroughs Adding MacHine Co. v. Wieselberg

The Burroughs Adding Machine Company petitioned the Wayne circuit court to direct the receiver of the Hollywood Sales & Service Company to return an adding machine or pay therefor. The receiver claims right to the machine because the con-, tract under which it came into the hands of the Hollywood company was in effect a chattel mortgage, and, not having been recorded, the Burroughs company has no lien thereon or right of reclamation. The circuit judge denied the petition, and the case is here by appeal.

April 6,1923, and before the receiver was appointed, the Burroughs company and the…