Wood Piano Co. v. Huckins

78 A. 614, 75 N.H. 611, 1910 N.H. LEXIS 76

• Court: Supreme Court of New Hampshire
• Decided: December 6, 1910
• Status: Published

Opinion

Walker, J.

The statute requiring a memorandum of a conditional sale of personal property to be recorded expressly excepts from its operation “a lien upon household goods created by alease thereof, containing an option in favor of the lessee to purchase the same at a time specified.” P. S., c. 140, s. 23. In Lamb v. King, 73 N. H. 400, it was held that a piano kept for use in a family is an article of “ household goods ” under this statute. Whether it is so kept for use is obviously a question of fact which the reported case does not disclose. That it might be kept for the use of a landlord’s family in a hotel, as well as in a private house, is too plain for serious discussion. No debatable question of law is raised by the case.

Case discharged.

All concurred.