Whitlock Machine Co. v. Holway
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Agreed Statement. Money had and received to recover $37.50 paid to defendant under protest and claimed by him as a lien due for storage of a printing press. • The case was reported to the law court .by the presiding justice of the Superior Court of Kennebec County upon an agreed statement of facts. They are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtWiswell, J.
The plaintiff bargained and delivered to the W. F. Mooers Publishing Company of Augusta, a printing press, under a written agreement, that it should remain the property of the plaintiff until the purchase price, for which, promissory notes *415were given, was fully paid. The instrument was duly recorded in the city clerk’s office of the city of Augusta. This transaction was in effect, under our statute, a sale and delivery to the Mooers Publishing Company and a mortgage back to secure the purchase price.
The Publishing Company rented rooms of the defendant, in one of which the printing press was…
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