COBB CENTER PAWN & BROKERS, INC. v. GORDON

No. A00A0421.

529 S.E.2d 138 (2000)

242 Ga. App. 73

COBB CENTER PAWN & JEWELRY BROKERS, INC. v. GORDON et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

January 25, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael L. Wetzel, Decatur, for appellant.

Johnson, Freeman & Perkins-Hooker, Horace J. Johnson, Jr., Atlanta, Reed Edmondson, Jr., Covington, Kirby G. Bailey, Decatur, for appellees.


McMURRAY, Presiding Judge.

The issue in this case is whether the pawnshop statute, OCGA § 44-12-130 et seq., relieves a pawnbroker of the necessity of recording a lien against a motor vehicle pledged as collateral in order to repossess the vehicle from a third party who, due to the pledgor's fraud, purchased the vehicle without knowledge of the pawnbroker's claim.

The facts are as follows: on May 27, 1993, Carlos Showers and Melissa Showers pledged a...

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