General Finance & Thrift Corp. v. Guthrie

The peremptory instruction given by the court to the jury, that upon all the evidence they should answer the issue in favor of the plaintiff, presents the question whether in any view of the evidence there was ground for defense to the plaintiff’s action.

The defendant appellant, in his brief and in his argument, concedes that under the general rule the execution and recording of a chattel mortgage or other lien on personal property in the county and state where the mortgagor then resided and where the property then was situated would ordinarily constitute notice to subsequent purchasers from…