Spokane Security Finance Co. v. Crowley Lumber Co.

After the departmental opinion in this ease (Spokane Security Finance Co. v. Crowley Lum. Co., 150 Wash. 559, 274 Pac. 102) was filed, a petition for rehearing was presented and granted. In the opinion of the department, after holding that a mortgagee of chattels may maintain an action of trover for conversion of the mortgaged property, the case of Bancroft-Whitney Co. v. Gowan, 24 Wash. 66, 63 Pac. 1111, which held that, where a chattel mortgage gave the mortgagee the right, in the case of default in payment, to take possession of the goods, such possession could be enforced by an action of…