“With its effective date in 1966, the Texas Business and Commerce Code preserved the certifícate of title system for perfecting security interests in motor vehicles except for vehicles held as inventory. Tex. Bus. & Comm.Code § 9.302(c) & (d).” (emphasis in original)
How later courts described this case
- “With its effective date in 1966, the Texas Business and Commerce Code preserved the certifícate of title system for perfecting security interests in motor vehicles except for vehicles held as inventory. Tex. Bus. & Comm.Code § 9.302(c) & (d).” (emphasis in original)
- An automobile mechanic’s lien on an automobile in his possession to secure services rendered takes priority over a prior secured party with a security interest in the automobile
- mechanic’s lien was prior to earlier-perfected security interest
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
SAM D. JOHNSON, Justice
(dissenting).
This dissent is respectfully submitted.
The sole question presented is whether an artisan, claiming a lien on an automobile in his possession under Texas Revised Civil Statutes, Articles 5503 and 5506, is entitled to priority over a prior secured party who has perfected his security interest on the vehicle’s certificate of title. This writer would answer such question in the negative.