Lindsley v. Werner

THE plaintiff Lindsley, an automobile dealer in Alamosa, Colorado, sold a Chrysler touring car to J. Paul Walling. The purchaser did not pay the entire purchase price and for the balance thereof, amounting to $874, he gave to plaintiff his promissory note in that sum, and to secure its payment executed and delivered to the plaintiff a chattel mortgage upon the car. The mortgage contained a covenant against the use of the car by the mortgagor in the violation of the federal or state intoxicating liquor laws. Thereafter, acting upon an appropriate affidavit, the sheriff of the county,…