In re Wilhelm

The decision as to the status of these two claims involves the proper construction and application of the Maryland statute (1935 Supp.Ann.Code of Maryland, Art. 21, § 55), requiring the recording of conditional contracts of sale, and providing that on failure thereof, they shall “be void as to third parties without notice until” so recorded.1 The claimants are re*441spectively conditional vendors who have filed petitions for possession of the articles sold,, and the trustee in bankruptcy is opposing the petitions. In both cases the conditional contracts were' recorded, but in one case not until…