C. I. T. Corporation v. Hungerford

Owen Motors, Inc., sold an automobile to Jacob P. Treciokas under a conditional sale contract duly recorded in the office of the town clerk of Watertown. The contract and note were assigned to the plaintiff. Thereafter, and before Treciokas, who was in default, had completed his payments, the car was attached by the defendant, a deputy sheriff, in a suit brought against Treciokas by Joseph P. Richards. The plaintiff brought the present action to replevy the automobile from this attachment. The instrument containing the conditional sale contract was made a part of the complaint. The purchaser…