Nashua Manufacturing Company v. Hooper Trailer Sales, Inc., Bankrupts

DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:

This case presents a single question: whether the failure of an assignee of accounts receivable to use the filing provisions of the Idaho Assignment of Accounts Receivable Act, Idaho Code Title 64, ch. 9, particularly the annual refiling provision of § 64-903(2), renders the assignment void as against creditors, including the trustee in bankruptcy of the assignor, even though the assignee had given notice of the assignment to the account debtor. The trial court held for the creditor and the trustee, and against the assignee. We affirm.

On appeal, the assignee argues that…