Case ID: mich_120/html/0508-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Grant, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WATSON v. ALBERTS.
    Conditional Sale — Bona Fide Purchaser — Fixtures.
    A bona fide purchaser of land, and of a permanent distillery-plant thereon, acquires title to a steam pump attached to the distillery, as against one who sold the pump, knowing it was to be so attached, under a contract providing that title should remain in the seller until payment of the price.
    Error to Muskegon; Russell, J.
    Submitted April 19, 1899.
    Decided July 5, 1899.
    Trover by William G. Watson and others against Silas L. Alberts and another. From a judgment for defendants on verdict directed by the court, plaintiffs bring error.
    Affirmed.
    Plaintiff, sold to one Minnick a steam pump, to be used by him in a peppermint distillery on his farm. It was sold on credit, the title to remain in plaintiffs until the price ($50) was paid. It was attached to a drive-wheel, and connected by a steam-pipe to the boiler; was fastened to a plank, which rested on timbers set in the ground. The pump and the entire distillery plant was in a permanent building. ■ Defendants bought Miimick’s farm and distillery in good faith, without notice or knowledge of plaintiffs’ claim, and believing that the pump was a part of the realty.
    
      A. S. Hinds (Arthur Jones, of counsel), for appellants.
    
      Stephen H. Clink, for appellees.
   Grant, C. J.

(after stating the facts). The property was sold to be attached to the distillery, and plaintiffs so understood it. It was so attached, and was sold by Minnick, as a part of the realty, to defendants, who were bona fide purchasers. The case is ruled by Wickes Bros. v. Hill, 115 Mich. 333.

Judgment affirmed.

The other Justices concurred.