In re Adkins

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

The sole issue in this case is the validity of a purported conditional sales contract, duly recorded in the proper clerk’s office, signed by the vendee, but not signed by the vendor although the printed name of the vendor appears at the bottom of the contract, and a party who is apparently the credit manager of the vendor signed her name on a line reserved for a “witness”.

Section 55-88 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, dealing with conditional sales contracts, reads, in part, as follows:

“Every sale or contract for the sale of goods and chattels, wherein the…