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Personal Property And Sales--1959 Tennessee Survey, Claude E. Bankester

Vanderbilt Law Review

Damage to Chattel in Possession of Mortgagor or Conditional Vendee.--When a chattel is mortgaged or sold pursuant to a conditional sales contract and is subsequently damaged by a third party while in possession of the mortgagor or conditional vendee, it is generally agreed that either party to the chattel mortgage' or conditional sales contract has a sufficient interest in the chattel to allow him to maintain an action against the wrongdoer. In Ellis v. Snell, the court allowed recovery by the mortgagor for the full amount of damage to the'mortgaged automobile, even though he was in default on the mortgage …