Dellinger v. Waite-Thresher Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; Jas. M. Morton, Judge. In the matter of the Floyd-Scott Company of Boston, bankrupt. From a decree (224 Fed/ 987) allowing a claim of lien by the Waite-Thresher Company, Raymond P. Dellinger, trustee, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This case relates to a lease of real estate in the state of Rhode Island, which contained for the lessor a reservation of personal property .on the premises, to protect rent which might afterwards become due. The lessee went into bankruptcy, but failed to record the lease containing the stipulations about the personal property referred to until within four months before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy. The trustee claimed .that, under the amendatory act in bankruptcy of 1910, he thus became entitled as such trustee to the personal property in question, free from…
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