Rosenthal v. Moses

The plaintiff, Rosenthal, seeks foreclosure of his claimed landlord’s lien for rent of his storeroom, upon certain goods and store fixtures kept therein, as against his tenant, Phoenix Department Store, a corporation, and the defendant, Moses, the department store’s mortgagee of the goods and fixtures. A trial in the superior court for King county resulted in a decree awarding to Rosenthal relief as prayed for, from which the defendant Moses has appealed to this court.

The controlling facts of this case are admitted by the pleadings and by stipulation filed in the case, and may be summarized…