Gallagher v. Berg

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MacLAUGHLIN, District Judge.

This is an appeal by defendant Kenneth Hansen from an order and judgment of the bankruptcy court which found that an assignment of the vendor’s interest in two contracts for deed, dated April 22, 1977, from the bankrupt to Kenneth Hansen, which went unrecorded until after Forbrook Construction, Inc. was adjudicated a bankrupt, was void and of no effect against the trustee by virtue of Section 60(a) of the Bankruptcy Act. In effect, the bankruptcy court found that under state law the trustee could not be charged with constructive notice of…