White Furniture Company v. Mather

Suit was filed by White Furniture Company to enforce an alleged equitable lien upon certain household furniture in the possession of one Ashley and wife, which had been purchased by them from Mather-Hodgkins, Inc., under retain title contract. The gist of the bill of complaint was that a subsequent transaction, whereby Mather-Hodgkins, Inc., had placed the conditional sales contract with a bank with instructions to collect installments due thereon and remit the same to White Furniture Company in liquidation of a preexisting debt, amounted to a partial equitable assignment of the contract, and…