Cummings-Landau Laundry MacHinery Co., Inc. v. Alderman

Judge Harlan’s able opinion, however attractive its argument, cannot, I fear, be accepted as the existing Connecticut law of conditional sales. I emphasize the local nature of the problem, because that is its proper setting. Even before the recent violent recrudescence of state law in the federal courts it was accepted doctrine that the extent of protection for creditors of a possessor, though not owner, of personal property was a matter of local policy. Maguire v. Gorbaty Bros., 2 Cir., 133 F.2d 675; Air Equipment Corp. v. Rubbercraft Corp., 2 Cir., 79 F.2d 521. But there does not seem…