Freedman v. Brown

FORD, District Judge.

This matter comes before me on a petition for review of the referee’s order sustaining a petition for reclamation of machinery and other property in the hands of the trustee in bankruptcy. The certificate presents a question as to the validity of a conditional sale contract between the reclamation petitioner and the bankrupt corporation.

The petitioner contended before the referee that the machinery and property sought to be reclaimed was his own, at no time the property of the bankrupt, and as a result of the execution of the conditional sale and the subsequent failure of…