Automobile Banking Corp. v. Klein

Melniker, D. C. J.

The court is required in this case to determine the question of ownership of a motor vehicle.

The defendant purchased the car at an execution sale under a judgment against a conditional vendee. The plaintiff claims title as assignee of a conditional bill of sale from the conditional vendor. The bill of sale was not filed with the register of Hudson county or in any other registration office, but notice thereof was filed in the motor vehicle department by endorsing on the bills of sale filed in that department a notation of the existence of a lien, in compliance, as contended…