Union Mattress Machinery Co. v. Jachnovitz

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 644
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 30

Syllabus

<p>Bailment — Conditional sale — Lease of machine-^-Passing title.</p> <p>An instrument in writing is to be construed as a bailment and not a conditional sale, where the instrument on its face is called a lease, and its provisions are that the lessee is to have the use of a patented machine for two years from a date designated, that he is to pay a certain sum in monthly installments, “until the machines are paid for as herein specified,” that in default of payments the lessor may distrain for the rent or declare the lease at an end, but without any provision that the lessee may become the owner of the machine after paying the installments or rent.</p>