American Laundry Machine Co. v. Citizens Nat. Life Ins.

Citations

• 107 Miss. 108
• 65 So. 113

Syllabus

<p>Fixtures Machinery. Rights of mortgagees.</p> <p>Where the machinery of a laundry attached by screws, rods, and bolts to the floor or ceiling of a building, or to concrete or brick foundation, in order to support and steady it, and which was placed in the building solely for use in connection with the laundry business, none of such machinery being necessary for the use of the building, as each and all of it can be removed without injury to the building, such machinery was personal property, and not fixtures in the sense that they became a part of the building in which they were placed and in such case a mortgagee of the house and lot in which the machinery was placed had no claim on such machinery as against a subsequent mortgage of the same.</p>