Lee v. Gorham

This is an action for the conversion of a piano. The piano was in the possession of the plaintiff under a written agreement of conditional sale in the common form of a lease with provisions that the plaintiff should become the owner after having paid a certain sum, and, on the other hand, that the lessors, the defendants, might take possession on default. There was a default, and the defendants took possession of the piano and sold it to a stranger. The case is here on exceptions.

The first question is whether St. 1884, c. 313, concerning conditional sales of “ furniture or other household…