National Cash Register Co. v. Burrow

The Victoria Hotel Corporation, of the city of Rorfolk, Va., bought from the Rational Cash Register Company two cash registers on the installment plan, entering into a contract purporting to set forth the price of the registers, when and how the deferred payments therefor were to he made payable, etc. The vendor sought to record said contract in the clerk’s office of the Corporation Court of the city of Rorfolk, so as to hold title to the registers in question against subsequent purchasers and creditors until the whole purchase money was paid, as provided by ■section 2462 of the Code of 1904.…