Bonnell v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Clay

Affirming.

Thomas Newcomb, who had been transporting liquor in a Buick roadster, was convicted, and the court ordered the machine forfeited to the commonwealth. Thereupon George F. Bonnell, who had a chattel mortgage on the machine, intervened, and asserted a prior valid lien. A demurrer was sustained to the intervening petition, and the petition was dismissed. On appeal it was held that the allegations of the petition were sufficient to show a prior valid lien, and the judgment was reversed, with directions to overrule the demurrer to the intervening…