Case ID: ad2d_37/html/0928-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hansa Overseas Corp., Respondent, v. Wilhelm Krawehl, Doing Business as Wilhelm Krawehl Export, Appellant.
   Appellant.— In this special proceeding, pursuant to CPLR 5239, judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County, entered on June 15, 1971, adjudicating title, as a matter of law, •unanimously reversed, on the law, and vacated, and a hearing directed on .the allegations set forth in the petition and cross-petition. Respondent-appellant shall recover of petitioner-respondent $50 costs and disbursements of this appeal. The appellant sold automotive paint to Hanseatic Supply Corporation. The sales agreement allegedly provided the title would remain in the appellant pending full payment. Payment was not made and the appellant sued Hanseatic as well as its president Peter Ahrens and its secretary Franz Zinssmeister and also a second corporation, White Wing Motors, Inc., with which these individuals were connected. Ahrens, Zinssmeister and White Wing Motors, Inc., bad guaranteed Hanseatic’s obligations to the appellant, and endorsed the notes in payment of the paint. Appellant recovered judgment against Hanseatic and White Wing by default and on October 1, 1970 in proceedings supplementary to that judgment a restraining notice was served on third parties in possession of the paint and of the accounts receivable arising therefrom. This proceeding was .commenced to vacate the restraint, the petitioner claiming title to the paint and the accounts receivable. The record presents at least the following questions of fact: whether or not there was a conditional sales contract; whether the acquisition of the paint and the purported transfer by Zinssmeister to the petitioner were fraudulent; whether the petitioner-respondent Hansa Overseas Corporation has valid title. It might well he said the record discloses considerable evidence indicating title in respondent-appellant Krawehl. However, there are factual issues to be determined before the title may be determined as matter of law. Concur—Capozzoli, J. P., Markewieh, Nunez, Murphy and McNally, JJ.

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