General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Brackett & Shaw Co.

The interest of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation does not appear from the reported facts but is assumed to be that of the vendor, since the petition alleges that the balance due on the purchase price is “payable at the office of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, said corporation having financed the purchase of said car.”

Section 27 of chapter 216 of the Public Laws provides that “no lien reserved on personal property sold conditionally and passing into the hands of the conditional purchaser,” with certain exceptions not material to the present controversy, “shall be valid…