La Rue v. Loveman, Joseph & Loeb

In an action of detinue by a conditional vendor of personal property against a landlord who had a lien on the property, and had taken peaceable possession of it after the tenant (purchaser) had abandoned it, the Court of Appeals sustained the right of recovery by the vendor, assuming that there was no sufficient notice of the vendor’s conditional sale, either by recording the instrument or otherwise, upon the theory that because the landlord possessed only a lien, which had not ripened into a title, he could not resist the claim of the vendor, because he had no sufficient property right on…