Overland Texarkana Co. v. Bickley

Defendant, who conducts an automobile shop in the town of Zolle in this state, traded two secondhand Ford automobiles and some cash to a stranger for an Overland touring automobile, which this stranger had become possessed of two days previously by entering into a conditional sale with the plaintiff in the state of Arkansas.

By the terms of this conditional sale the car was not to cease to belong to the plaintiff and become the property of this stranger until fully paid for. The stranger had given plaintiff a check for $500, and executed his three promissory notes for the balance of the…