Cedar Rapids Investment Co. v. Commodore Hotel Co.

I. The defendant Commodore Hotel Company will be spoken of as if it were sole defendant. It is undisputed that the plaintiff has a. valid chattel mortgage upon the automobile in controversy, and that it was properly filed for record before the automobile , 1 , n 1 , , . -rvüi x; was taken to defendant s premises. Defendant s claim is that it is a hotel keeper, and that the automobile is “baggage,” within the meaning of Chapter 458, Code of 1927, and that thereunder defendant has a lien superior to the lien of the chattel mortgage, — relying on Brown Shoe Co. v. Hunt, 103 Iowa 586. Defendant…