Supreme Court of Florida, 1918

Lanier v. Chancy

Supreme Court of Florida · Decided November 9, 1918 · Browne, Ellis, Taylor, West, Whitfield

76 Fla. 443; 80 So. 312; 1918 Fla. LEXIS 337

Cases that cite this one

5 later published cases cite this decision.

Maas Bros. v. Guaranty Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1965)
Trumbull Chevrolet Sales Co. v. Seawright (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1961)
Commercial Credit Co. Inc. v. Parker (Fla. 1931)
Glass v. Continental Guaranty Corp. (Fla. 1921)
Edwards v. Baldwin Piano Co. (Fla. 1920)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion of the Court

Whitfield, J.

In an action of replevin Chancy recovered a mule from Lanier, who took writ of error. Chancy sold the mule to one McDonald, retaining title till payment of purchase price. Lanier was in possession of the mule purchased from one Love. Chancy had not been paid for the mule. The defendant did not show or offer to show specific facts indicating express or implied authority from Chancy to McDonald to sell the mule so as *444to avoid the retention of title by Chancy, if that could be done in this class of cases.

Affirmed.

Browne, C. J., and Taylor, Ellis and West, J. J., concur.

Case-law data current through December 31, 2025. Source: CourtListener bulk data.