Maine Acceptance Corp. v. Sheehan

On exceptions. Plaintiff in replevin, assignee of a conditional sale contract, claimed title to an automobile held by defendant, a deputy sheriff, on attachment in favor of a creditor of the vendee. The sale was made on September 12,1928, and the vendee took possession of the automobile on that day.

On September 15 the contract was recorded in the clerk’s office of the city in which vendee resided. In the meantime, the automobile had been attached.

Sec. 8, Chap. 114, R. S. 1916, reads:

“No agreement that personal property bargained and delivered to another shall remain the property of the seller…