Personal Finance Company v. Flecknoe

This appeal presents for our determination the question of the priority between an artisan’s common law lien for repairing an automobile and the lien of a chattel mortgage on said automobile duly executed and recorded prior to the making of such repairs.

The automobile in question was a 1931 LaSalle Victoria coupe. The chattel mortgage was dated May 14, 1937, and recorded May 20, 1937, in the office of the recorder of Lake County, Indiana, the county in which ,the mortgagor, one Gilford King, resided. The mort gage was given to secure the payment of $190.00, payable in fifteen successive…