Heinrich v. Titus-Will Sales, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• interpreting U.C.C. § 2-401(1) to limit seller’s rights to a security interest even where parties explicitly contract that seller will retain title to goods delivered to buyer
• subsequent purchaser acquires no title to stolen goods despite consideration paid or good faith of the later transaction
• sale and delivery of goods procured by fraudulent representations of the purchaser may be avoided by the vendor
• where ultimate consumer paid merchant more than merchant agreed to pay entrusting original owner, merchant’s fraudulent conduct did not taint purchaser’s title under entrustment statute
• the court acknowledged the principle but did not apply it because the parties did not raise the issue of whether the agent was the sole representative of the principal
• subsequent purchaser acquires no title to stolen goods despite consideration paid or good faith of the later transaction

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