American Type Founders Co. v. Nichols

delivered the following dissenting opinion.

The certified question calls for a determination of the order of priority as between a duly registered chattel mortgage lien upon a printing press and an engine, constituting portions of a printing office outfit, given to secure purchase money, and a subsequently arising duly fixed and duly sued upon statutory artisan’s lien upon said printing press and said engine.

The decision of the trial court, that the statutory lien upon the press and engine was superior to the contract lien thereon, was, in my opinion, unquestionably sound. That has been my…