John Deere Plow Co. v. Hamilton

PAGE, Circuit Judge.

At the time of the bankruptcy, bankrupt, an Illinois merchant, turned over to the trustee plows, etc., purchased by him for resale under a contract with appellant. Appellant’s reclamation proceedings were based on the proposition that its contract, although unrecorded, was such a conditional sale contract, under the Uniform Sales Act of Illinois (Laws 1915, p. 604), as entitled it to the merchandise as against the trustee in bankruptcy. The denial of the petition is assigned as error. Material parts of the contract are in the margin.1

*967The proposition requires answer to two…