Court Opinion

ID: 6696658
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 21:53:38.602242+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:16.258540
License: Public Domain

Clark, C. J.,
dissenting: This case presents the same point as in Johnson v. Yates, ante, 24, which is whether the vendor, who has secured the balance due on the purchase money for an automobile by a mortgage duly registered in the proper county, loses his priority by the fact that a mechanic in another county has subsequently placed repairs on the machine without the knowledge or consent of the mortgagee. It is sufficient to refer to what has been said upon the same point in the dissenting opinion in Johnson v. Yates, supra, at p. 31. The mortgagor is simply a tenant at will to use the machine, and has no implied authority to “improve the owner out of his property.”
The danger of improving the owner out of his property is emphasized by the fact that in this case there is a balance still due the vendor on his mortgage of $430 and the lien asserted for repairs is $177.