Meisel Tire Co. v. Ralph

The plaintiff sues the defendant for converting an automobile on which it holds a chattel mortgage.

The case is submitted on a stipulation of the facts. It appears therefrom that the plaintiff is the holder of a chattel mortgage made by one Weaver on said automobile, and providing the holder should be entitled to immediate possession thereof on default in payment; that the mortgagor, Weaver, having bought the automobile on a conditional contract of sale, sold it, after the mortgage thereon, to the defendant; that the defendant, without actual knowledge of the chattel mortgage, resold the car…