Court Opinion

ID: 3655502
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:08:47.466384+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:49:06.951903
License: Public Domain

The issue submitted to the jury and their answer thereto were as follows: "Is the intervener's title to the truck superior to plaintiff's title? Answer: No."
This is a civil action brought by James R. Rogers against Jesse H. Ray, to recover judgment on a note secured by a chattel mortgage and possession of six motor trucks described therein, and claim and delivery proceeding was instituted to recover possession of said motor trucks. The Mack International Motor Truck Corporation *Page 578 
intervened in the action and claimed to be the holder of a first lien on one of the six motor trucks, to wit, one 2 1/2-ton Mack, Model 1-AB, Chassis No. 576855, by reason of a conditional sales agreement recorded prior to the chattel mortgage held by the plaintiff. The plaintiff contended that the intervener's first lien had been lost by reason of its having taken and recorded two other conditional sales agreements covering said truck subsequent to the recordation of his chattel mortgage and introduced evidence tending to sustain the contention that the chattel mortgage of plaintiff was a first lien.
"The intervener becomes the actor and the burden of the issue is on the intervener." McKinney v. Sutphin, 196 N.C. at p. 321.
The exception and assignment of error made by the intervener: "For that the court erred in overruling the intervener's motion for a directed verdict in its favor and against the plaintiff when the plaintiff rested his case." The court below overruled this motion, and in this we see no error.
The evidence was not strong, but more than a scintilla and sufficient to be submitted to the jury. The charge of the court below is not in the record. The presumption is that the court below stated in a plain and correct manner the evidence given in the case and declared and explained the law arising thereon. C. S., 564. In the judgment we find
No error.