Beck v. Violet

Hall, Presiding Judge.

Defendant in a trover action appeals from a judgment for the plaintiff. Plaintiff had a car, the legal title to which was in a credit union under a bill of sale to secure debt. Plaintiff in turn “sold” the car to defendant under a conditional-sale contract. Defendant wrecked the car and made no further payments to plaintiff, as per the sale contract. Plaintiff brought a trover action alleging title. Defendant enumerates as error the court’s failure to admit evidence of this title and the judgment, contending that as the issue in trover is title, proof of outstanding…