Lyon v. Nourse

Citations

• 104 Wash. 309
• 176 P. 359
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1192

Syllabus

<p>Chattel Mortgages (1) — Distinguished From Conditional Sale —Validity. Where an automobile was consigned to the purchaser subject to payment of draft attached to the bill of lading, one who advanced money to pay the draft, immediately delivering the bill of lading to the consignee who took possession of the car, cannot secure the advance by the giving and recording of a conditional bill of sale to the consignee, under the fiction of a sale to and resale by him; since it is not the office of a conditional bill of sale to secure money loaned without the formalities required of a chattel mortgage.</p>