Anglo American Mill Co. v. Wisconsin Hydro-Electric Co.

The only right which the plaintiff has to recover is that which it secured by the assignment from Ludwig. Its conditional-sale contract was not filed or placed on record, so that the Hydro-Electric Company had no notice of plaintiff’s claim upon the mill by virtue of its conditional-sale contract, even though such filing would have constituted notice to a purchaser of the real estate that the mill was personal property and not a part of the freehold. A consideration of the case, therefore, involves only the right of the tenant, Ludwig, to recover possession of the mill. Undoubtedly as between…