GMC Superior Trucks, Inc. v. Irving Bank & Trust Co.
Decision Date | 14 January 1971 |
Docket Number | No. 4941,4941 |
Citation | 463 S.W.2d 274,8 UCCRep.Serv. 1137 |
Parties | 8 UCC Rep.Serv. 1137 GMC SUPERIOR TRUCKS, INC., Appellant, v. IRVING BANK & TRUST CO., Appellee. |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Dow, Cogburn & Friedman, Perry J. Radoff, Houston, Carrington, Coleman, Sloman, Johnson & Blumenthal, Robert H . Mow, Jr., Dallas, for appellant.
Tabor & Fowler, Craig M. Fowler, Irving, for appellee.
This is an appeal from summary judgment for plaintiff Irving Bank foreclosing plaintiff's Security Interest Lien on a 1966 Dodge diesel truck. The judgment held plaintiff Irving's Security Interest Lien superior to defendant GMC Superior Trucks' lien for repairs to the vehicle.
The facts are undisputed, and the sole issue is the priority of the liens of Irving and Superior.
In 1968 George Schipp executed a note to Irving Bank, and to secure such note executed a security agreement granting Irving a security interest in a 1966 Dodge diesel truck. On June 7, 1968 Irving's lien was duly recorded on the certificate of title to the vehicle.
In June 1969 Schipp took the truck to Superior for repairs. Superior furnished parts and performed repair work on the truck in the amount of $3709.43, but was not paid for same. Superior kept possession of the truck.
Schipp then failed to make payments on his note to Irving, and in November 1969 Irving sued Schipp for $21,952, due on such note, attorney's fees, and foreclosure of its lien on the truck; and sued Superior for foreclosure of its lien and possession of the truck.
Superior filed cross action against Schipp for its repair bill, and cross action against Irving asserting its lien for repairs was superior to Irving's security lien.
Both plaintiff Irving and defendant Superior filed motions for summary judgment.
The trial court granted Irving's motion, and rendered judgment for Irving against Schipp for the amount owed it, and against Schipp and Superior for foreclosure of Irving's security lien on the truck.
Superior appeals contending the trial court erred:
1) In denying priority to Superior for its lien under Article 16, Section 37 of the Texas Constitution, Vernon's Ann.St., for the value of labor done on the truck and material furnished thereon, because the lien was not expressly subordinated as required by Section 9.310 of the Texas Business and Commerce Act.
2) In denying priority to Superior for its lien under Article 5502 et seq., Texas Civil Statutes, because such statutes do not expressly provide that the lien of Superior is subordinated to any other liens, as required by Section 9.310 of the Texas Business and Commerce Code.
Superior concedes that prior to passage of the Business and Commerce Code Irving would have had a superior lien, but asserts that the Business and Commerce Code gives Superior's lien priority.
Irving asserts that the lien priorities for vehicles, established by the Texas Certificate of Title Act, P.C. 1436--1 VATS, Sections 24 and 43, control over the general provisions of Section 9.310 of the Business and Commerce Code, and that its lien is superior, as held by the trial court.
The Business and Commerce Code (Uniform Commercial Code) provides: (emphasis added)
Article 16, Section 37 Texas Constitution provides:
This the Legislature did in Article 5503:
Article 5506 provides:
Article 1436--1 VAPC (The Certificate of Title Act) provides:
'Sec. 24: The term 'Certificate of Title' means a written instrument which may be issued solely by and under the authority of the department, and which must give the following data * * *.
'(g) The names and addresses and dates of any liens on the motor vehicle, in chronological order of recordation.'
Section 43 declares: ...
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