Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0395-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ALLEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 513
    No. 19570
    City of Findlay, Ohio, et v. Associated Investment Company.
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Hancock County.
    787. MORTGAGES.
    Where Vehicle, because of transporting intoxicating liquors, is to be sold, the mortgagee can collect his lien according to priority, out of proceeds of sale.
    1063. SALES.
    A sale under 6212-43 GC. regular except for public notice, is constructively fraudulent and void.
   ALLEN, J.

1. Under Section 6212-43, General Code, when a vehicle which has been used for_ the transportation of intoxicating liquors in violation of law has been seized and sold at public auction, the mortgagee of such vehicle may establish his lien by intervention or otherwise at the hearing or in other proceedings for said purpose, and may collect his lien according to its priority out of the funds realized upon the sale.

2. A sale of a vehicle under Section 6212-43, General Code, which is otherwise regular, but of which no public notice is given, is constructively fraudulent and void.

Judgment modified*and affirmed.

Marshall, C. J., Matthias, Day and Robinson, JJ., concur. Jones and Kinkade, JJ., concur in proposition 2 of the syllabus and in the judgment.