Thayer Mercantile Co. v. First National Bank

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

This is an action of replevin. The case was tried before Judge Dungan without a jury, upon an agreed state of facts which disclosed the following situation: The plaintiff company, doing business in New York, sold to one Chaffee, on December 20th, 1920, a certain automobile, under a conditional sales agreement, which was filed in the office of the register of New York county, the purchase having been made and consummated *30in that jurisdiction. In less than a week thereafter Chaffee removed the automobile from New York City to…