Bauer v. Commercial Credit Co.

A. E. Bauer instituted this claim and delivery action to establish his title to and to recover possession of a Willys-Knight coupe. The trial of the cause to the court resulted in judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant has appealed.

The Dunn Motor Company, distributor for Willys-Knight automobiles at Ritzville, Washington, sold and delivered to the respondent on October 9, 1929, a Wil-lys-Knight coupe. At that time, the Dunn Motor Company was being financed by the Pacific Finance Corporation, which held an unrecorded bill of sale to secure an unpaid balance of $851 due from the…