36 Wash. 2d 236 - Smith v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “It seems unreasonable ... to say that a seller of a leasehold and furnishings of a [business] . . . would jeopardize his investment by permitting the vendee of a conditional sale contract to take absolute title to the leasehold interest and thus place it beyond the seller's power, in the event of default, to recapture his entire investment. In other words, the furniture and furnishings would be merely of nominal value without the right to occupy the . . . building and conduct business therein. We have no doubt that it was the intention of the parties when entering into this contract that the leasehold interest should never be separated from the furniture and furnishings. In the event of a default everything covered by the contract was to be returned to the seller.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 39 Wash. App. 688 - Olin v. Goehler