Suburban Motors, Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

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• reaffirming and applying “the common law rule that good title cannot pass from a thief”
• nothing in U.C.C. § 2403(a) permits the transfer of voidable title by a thief; where a thief takes property, without the assent of the owner and not in a transaction of purchase, he has no title and can convey none to a bona fide purchaser
• nothing in U.C.C. § 2403(a) permits the transfer of voidable title by a thief; where a thief takes property, without the assent of the owner and not in a transaction of purchase, he has no title and can convey none to a bona fide purchaser
• \[T]here is no authority for [the] contention that section 2403 validates a second chain of title to an automobile spuriously created after it has been stolen.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).