Stevens Hardware Co. v. Bank of Byromville

In the instant action of trover, brought by a third person as purchaser at a judicial sale under a mortgage-foreclosure proceeding, against the transferee of an alleged contract of conditional sale, covering one Burroughs Booking or Posting Machine, it appears that the defendant relied only upon the sufficiency of constructive notice afforded by the record of the original contract of alleged conditional sale. This contract for reservation of title is in the form of an order, and reads in part as follows: “Please enter our order for 646 Burroughs Machine, stand required No.--•, style six forty…