General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. State

Bill in equity by the state to condemn an automobile owned by one Pearl Norton, a resident of Irondale, Jefferson county, used in the unlawful transportation of prohibited liquors, with intervention of claim by the General Motors Acceptance Corporation. From a decree granting the petition of condemnation, and disallowing the claim of intervention, claimant appeals.

The car, a Chevrolet roadster, was purchased by Pearl Norton from the Lasseter Chevrolet Company, of Gadsden. Ala., on March 5, 1927, a conditional sale contract being executed, which contract was duly purchased by the General…