Case Name: VEENEMA & WIEGERS, INCORPORATED, A BODY CORPORATE, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. THE WHITE COMPANY, LIKEWISE A BODY CORPORATE, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1936-10-09
Citations: 14 N.J. Misc. 798
Docket Number: 
Parties: VEENEMA & WIEGERS, INCORPORATED, A BODY CORPORATE, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. THE WHITE COMPANY, LIKEWISE A BODY CORPORATE, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 798–799

Head Matter:
VEENEMA & WIEGERS, INCORPORATED, A BODY CORPORATE, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. THE WHITE COMPANY, LIKEWISE A BODY CORPORATE, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
Submitted May term, 1936
Decided October 9, 1936.
Before Justices Bodine and Hehee.
For the appellant, Jerome Alper (Samuel B. Friedman, of counsel).
For the respondent, Aristo Dallavalle (Herman Cooper, of counsel).

Opinion:
Pee Ctjeiam.
This case was tried by the District Court judge, sitting without a jury; and the sole ground of appeal is that there was error in the denial of plaintiff's motion for a "directed verdict in its favor." This and other specifications raise the question of whether there is any evidence to support the judgment.
The inquiry must be resolved in the affirmative. Under the circumstances, it was open to the judge to find that the sale was in fact unconditional, and that the conditional sales agreement was an afterthought. Moreover, he found as a fact that the defendant corporation had no knowledge of the claimed conditional sales contract between plaintiff and Siematkowski, until after the sale in the proceedings instituted to foreclose its chattel mortgage, and the resale of the vehicle to Palo (it was not recorded at any time); and, in such circumstances, the long and unexplained delay after Siematkowski's default in exercising the now asserted right of possession under this unrecorded instrument tends to refute the claim of a conditional sale. We think, too, that it constituted a waiver of the condition, if in fact there was such a contract, and precludes recovery in an action for conversion.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.