Davis v. Smith-Springfield Body Corp.

This is an action of replevin. The plaintiffs assert ownership and right to possession of an automobile chassis by virtue of a chattel mortgage given to them by one Hurum of New York City and recorded in the appropriate registry office of that city. It was conceded that possession was in the defendant, who was entitled to a lien on the chassis for work rightly done on it. The defendant therefore took no further part in the trial. One Allen intervened as claimant. The trial proceeded between him and the plaintiff.

It was also conceded that the chattel mortgage upon which the plaintiffs’ case in…