Burtrum Bros. Motor Co. v. Dryden

In this suit, Charles L. Burtrum and Joe H. Burtrum, doing business as Burtrum Brothers Motor Company, automobile dealers of Newton County, Missouri, obtained an order of sequestration in the district court under which a 1939 model Oldsmobile sedan automobile, in the possession of the defendant, Theodore F. Dryden, was seized by the sheriff of Terrebonne Parish. The sequestration was obtained in an effort to have a mortgage lien, alleged to bear against the automobile, recognized and enforced.

The automobile was allegedly sold by the plaintiffs on January 26, 1946, to a certain Mrs. George…