Land Title Bank & Trust Co. v. Stout

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Barnes,

The question here involved is whether a conditional vendor may remove elevators installed in an apartment house under a conditional sales agreement, or whether they became part of the freehold and bound by the lien of a prior mortgage on the premises.

Cliveden Hall, the mortgaged property, is a five-story, brick apartment building located at Lincoln Drive and Cliveden Street, in Philadelphia. The mortgage wa® executed on April 1, 1926, by J. Irwin Stout, as title holder for the real owner, the Linclive Realty Corporation, to the West End Trust Company, trustee for…