Le Corgne v. Garner

Dan A. Garner, defendant herein, bought a Ford automobile and rented a home (2802 Palmer Ave.) To secure the vendor of the Ford he executed a chattel mortgage on the Ford and included his household furniture. He failed to pay for the Ford and neglected to pay his rent. The landlord (plaintiff herein) provisionally seized defendant’s household effects and the assignee of the Ford vendor intervened, claiming a superior privilege upon the furniture, because of the chattel mortgage. Defendant, attacked upon both sides, surrendered and we have only to consider the conflicting claims of the…