Legal Opinion
Brookhaven Bank & Trust Company v. D. E. Gwin
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 4, 1958No. 16695_1PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
This case concerns the priority of liens on a fund in the hands of a trustee in bankruptcy.
On July 1, 1953, R. P. Crenshaw executed to D. E. Gwin a chattel mortgage on a Ford motor truck and float. Eleven months later, on June 1, 1954, this instrument was filed for record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Lincoln County, Mississippi. Meanwhile, on September 8, 1953, Fordyce Truck and Equipment Company had obtained a judgment against Crenshaw in the Circuit Court of Lincoln County which had been duly enrolled in the office of the Circuit Clerk on the same day. No…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Sessions v. RomadkaSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Brown v. O'KEEFESupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Corn Exchange National Bank & Trust Co. v. KlauderSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Myers v. MatleySupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Sampsell v. StraubCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1952
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3Cited by20 opinions
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