Case ID: njl_102/html/0729-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EDWARD R. McGLYNN, TRUSTEE, ETC., RESPONDENT, v. ALFRED J. ELLIS, APPELLANT.
    Submitted July 9, 1923
    Decided October 5, 1923.
    Notic — Tlie per curiam opinion in this case was reported in 99 X. ./. L. 283. Through inadvertence and mistake, the per curiam of the Supreme Court in the case of Roe v. Bonham was printed in the report instead of the per curiam in this case, which follows below. — Reporter.
    On appeal from the Supreme Court, in which the following per curia m is filed :
    “This is a suit in replevin for an automobile. The plaintiff is a trustee in bankruptcy of the A. L. Kirby Company. The defendant, Ellis, was an officer of that company. The Kirby company bought the automobile and had a hill of sale for it in compliance with the act of 1919. Pamph. L., p. 351. This act makes it unlawful to sell or purchase any motor vehicle except in the manner and subject to the conditions therein provided. ' One of the conditions is that in all sales or purchases of a motor vehicle direct from the manufacturer or through an agent or agency of such manufacturer, there shall be issued to the purchaser a manufacturer’s bill of sale containing the manufacturer’s number on the engine or motor of the vehicle sold. In all other sales it is required that the original bill of sale shall be assigned by the seller to the purchaser by an assignment witnessed by two persons and acknowledged by the seller before a notary public, and all such assignments shall at all times be kept and attached to the original manufacturer’s bill of sale. These provisions are obviously intended to assist in protecting automobiles from the danger of theft.
    
      “We see no reason, to doubt their validity. The Kirby company had a bill of sale in compliance with the statute. The defendant never had. Of course, the bill of sale for the automobile was properly admitted in evidence. It was a necessary document of title. We think the questions objected to in grounds of appeal, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, were properly overruled. We are unable to see what relevancy the proffered evidence had to the case.
    
      “We find no error in the record. The judgment must be affirmed.”
    For the appellant, Warren Dixon.
    
    For the respondent, William F. Delaney.
    
   Per Curiam.

The judgment under review herein should be affirmed, for the reasons expressed in the opinion of the Supreme Court.

For affirmance — The Chancellor, Parker, Bergen, Minturn, Kalisch, Black, Katzenbach, White, Heppenheimer, Ackerson, Van Buskirk, JJ. 11.

For reversal — None.