Rite Credit Tire Co. v. A. B. Williams Auto Sales Co.

Whether plaintiff or defendant was the owner and entitled to the possession of said tires and tubes at the times same were taken into possession and sold by defendant as a part of Campbell’s car, depends upon the legal effect of the ultimate facts and the terms of the instruments above recited.

In Ohio it is well established that the legal title to mortgaged chattel property is in the mortgagee.

Robinson, Jr., v Fitch, 26 Oh St 659 at page 663:

“1. A chattel mortgage in the usual form conveys (to the mortgagee the property mortgaged, and he thereby becomes the general owner of it, and in the…