Baker v. Bockelman

The defendant purchased from one Kreuter, of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a so-called musical instrument called a ealliaphone, attached to a Ford truck. By that purchase, the defendant became the owner of said instrument, for the reason that he had neither actual nor constructive notice of any incumbrance on said instrument.

As a bit of history connected with the case, of which the defendant had neither notice nor knowledge, this - instrument was, in the first instance, sold by the plaintiff to Kreuter under a conditional sale contract. In said contract there was a provision reserving the ownership…