Quinn v. Bancroft-Jones Corporation

(after stating the facts as above). The sole question presented by this record is whether an unfiled conditional sale agreement is valid against a receiver appointed on a general creditor’s bill in equity.

Section 65 of the Personal Property Law of New York, as added by Laws 1922, c. 642, § 2 (section 5 of the Uniform Conditional Sales Act), provides:

“Every provision in a conditional sale reserving property in the seller shall be void as to any purchaser from or creditor of the buyer, who, without notice of such provision, purchases the goods or acquires by attachment or levy a lien upon them,…