Huie v. Soo Hoo

This action in claim and delivery presents the question whether the lien of a garage-keeper for storage of an automobile and for supplies and service furnished has priority over the rights of an innocent purchaser for value, without notice of the lien, where the owner was permitted to remove the automobile from the garage for use in business day by day, and the sale was made at a time when the automobile was not in the garage.

The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts. It appears therefrom that the automobile in question was owned by the Triangle Produce Company, and for some time…