Casterline v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.

Opinion by

Flood, J.,

This case requires us to determine the competing claims to an automobile asserted by the defendant, the assignee of a New York conditional sales contract, and the plaintiffs who are subsequent purchasers of the car in Pennsylvania.

The problem arises out of the following sequence of events:

On October 14, 1957, in New York, Old Reliable Motors Sales sold the car to Jules Simon on a condi*347tional sales contract and assigned the contract .to General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the defendant.

Later that day Simon transferred title to the car to John E. Schwartz, who thereupon…