Sterling Motor Truck Co. of N. Y., Inc. v. Lavan

This action began as one in replevin and ended as one in foreclosure. The essential question is the extent of the hen which the defendant Pincus as keeper of a garage had on the two trucks in question. Plaintiff was the conditional vendor of one truck and the chattel mortgagee of the other. For a period of some months in 1928 the owner of the trucks kept them at defendant’s garage, where they were furnished with service and supphes. Almost daily during that period the owner took the trucks out for use in his business. Defendant has been given a hen, superior to plaintiff’s, for the amount…