Bruce G. M. Diesel, Inc. v. Associates Financial Services Co.

The facts are not in dispute. They appear in the opinion of the trial court, 118 N. J. Super. 528 (1972).

As there noted, the sole and determinative issue is whether the only lien of one repairing a motor vehicle is that afforded by the Garage Keeper’s Lien Act, N. J. S. A. 2A:44-21, or whether a garageman has also available the common law artisan’s lien. The question is of substantial importance in eases where, as here, there is a perfected security interest, because the former lien is expressly subordinated to such an interest by the statute', while the latter lien is unaffected. Ferrante v.…