Best Trailer Sales, Inc. v. William C. Smith, Trustee in Bankruptcy for Charles Ernest Douglas, Bankrupt

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court affirming the dismissal of a claim filed by Best Trailer Sales, Inc., claiming to be the owner of a house trailer involved in the bankruptcy of Charles Ernest Douglas.

The question presented to the referee, and now before us, is whether a contract by which Douglas acquired the trailer was a recordable instrument under the statutes of Alabama, Section 131, Title 47 of the Code of Alabama of 1940, as Amended. 1

If it was such a recordable instrument, then the referee and the trial court were right in concluding that…