Security Bank & Trust Co. v. State ex rel. Thomas

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

The action out of which this appeal arises was instituted by the State on rela- ' tion of the County Attorney of Craig County, Oklahoma, for the purpose of having forfeited, under the provisions of Tit. 37 O.S.1951 § 111, a 1955 Plymouth automobile owned by John Karr, alleged to have been used to transport intoxicating liquor in said county. The Security Bank & Trust Company, Miami, Oklahoma, intervened, claiming a valid and subsisting lien on the auto by reason of a chattel mortgage dated February 10, 1955, and recorded four days later, whereby Karr, the autó’s pur*924chaser…