Brown v. Woody

Lively, Peesident:

This -writ of error involves a controversy between landlord and a vendor who has reserved title to personal property, as to which has precedence in the assertion of his claim, the personal property having been placed on the landlord’s premises with his tenant. The landlord asserts that his lien for rent is superior to the claim of the vendor who has title under a conditional sale contract. The property involved is an automatic player-piano. Originally it was sold by the Manley Piano Company to Jones, a tenant of J. E. Brown, the landlord, and was placed by the tenant in a…