Case ID: ga-app_96/html/0704-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Felton, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

36912.
    GEORGIA NOVELTY MACHINE CO. v. MOUNT.
    Decided November 19, 1957.
    
      Paul Webb, Jr., Bertram S. Boley, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Frank A. Bowers, contra.
   Felton, C. J.

1. The notation on a note, “This note constitutes a lien on all fixtures and equipment at 268 Grill, 268 Williams ' Street,” is sufficient to constitute a valid chattel mortgage upon the property named therein. Code § 67-102. The description contained a key which would be sufficient with the aid of extrinsic evidence to adequately identify the property covered by the mortgage. Green v. Rogers, 62 Ga. 166 (1); Kiser & Co. v. Carrollton Dry Goods Co., 96 Ga. 760 (1, 4) (22 S. E. 303); Clark v. Dodson Printers’ Supply Co., 137 Ga. 324 (73 S. E. 580); International Harvester Co. v. Davis, 13 Ga. App. 1 (2) (78 S. E. 770); Jones & Damren Auto Co. v. Lott, 17 Ga. App. 834 (88 S. E. 719); Georgia Mountain Orchards v. Jones & Stewart, 33 Ga. App. 513 (126 S. E. 865).

2. A purchaser from a mortgagor of property covered by a recorded valid chattel mortgage takes the property subject to the lien of the mortgagee and such purchaser cannot gain a prescriptive title superior to the lien of the mortgagee. Fry v. Shehee, 55 Ga. 208 (3); Towler v. Carithers, 4 Ga. App. 517 (61 S. E. 1132).

The court erred in denying the motion for new trial.

Judgment reversed.

Quillian and Nichols, JJ., concur.