General Electric Credit Corp. v. Western Crane & Rigging Co.

The district court declared that plaintiff had no property interest in a truck crane. Plaintiff on appeal contends it had perfected a security interest by filing a contract and assignment for conditional sale of the equipment under pre-code law of Colorado. Defendant contends: (1) Local law of New Mexico, not Colorado, governed perfection of the, security interest and possibility and effect of filing; (2) plaintiff failed to file the contract and assignment in the county prescribed by Colorado law; and (3) subsequent transfer of the truck crane from a merchant to defendant, a buyer in ordi…