Court Opinion

ID: 9662058
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:58:01.489562+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:36.189587
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On Petition for Rehearing.
BURDICK, District Judge.
The appellants have filed a petition for rehearing in which they contend that this court failed to consider “whether or not the conditional sales contract involved herein is a divisible contract whereby title to the merchandise can be sold conditionally and the trade name, ‘Irving’s Tractor Lug Company,’ be sold outright without title reservation.” Counsel ask the court to distinguish this case from Soderstrom v. White, 68 N.D. 293, 279 N.W. 306, 117 A.L.R. 391.
The suggested question presupposes that the determination of title to the property contracted for is vital to the issue. In the main opinion we held that in this action— for preventive relief by injunction to restrain the sellers from wrongful interference with the possession, use, and enjoyment of the property contracted for — it was not material whether the legal title to the property was reserved to the sellers. The sellers have failed to establish any default on the part of the buyers that would entitle the sellers to repossess any of the property, regardless of whether all or part of it was sold outright or by conditional sales contract with title reserved to the sellers. The absence of an actionable default of the buyers in the case at bar distinguishes it from Soderstrom v. White, cited supra.
We adhere to our former opinion.
MORRIS, C. J., and BURKE, SATHRE, and GRIMSON, JJ., concur.
JOHNSON, J., did not participate.