GENERAL MOTORS A. CORP. v. COLWELL DIESEL S. & G., INC.


302 A.2d 595 (1973)

GENERAL MOTORS ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION v. COLWELL DIESEL SERVICE & GARAGE, INC.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

March 27, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jensen, Baird, Chapman & Gardner, by Merton G. Henry, W. Scott Carlisle, III, Portland, for plaintiff.

Silsby & Silsby, by James A. Silsby, Ellsworth, for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEBBER, WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, WERNICK and ARCHIBALD, JJ.


DUFRESNE, Chief Justice.

The instant appeal questions the propriety of the ruling below that Colwell Diesel Service & Garage, Inc., the appellee, hereinafter referred to as Colwell, had a valid mechanics' lien entitled to priority over the lien of General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the appellant, whose lien arose by virtue of a perfected purchase-money security interest.

By agreed statement of facts submitted to the Justice below, it appears that one...

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