American Type Founders' Co. v. Nichols
Texas Supreme Court
Certified Question from Court of Civil Appeals of Second Supreme Judicial District. Action by J. M. Nichols against the American Type Founders’ Company and another before a justice of the peace. On appeal to the county court by the named defendant judgment was entered on trial de novo for plaintiff, and the named defendant appeals to the Court of Civil Appeals. On certified question.
1DissentHawkins, J.
The certified question calls for a determination -of the order of priority as between a duly registered chattel mortgage lien upon a printing press and an engine, constituting portions of a printing office outfit, given to secure purchase money, and a subsequently arising duly fixed and duly sued upon statutory artisan’s lien upon said printing press and said engine.
The decision of the trial court that the statutory lien upon the press and engine was superior to the contract lien thereon was, in my opinion, unquestionably sound. That has been my conclusion upon each of three separate studies…
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