In re Devon Manor Corp.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of Devon Manor Corporation, bankrupt. On review of order of referee.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, District Judge.
The learned referee was of the opinion that the contract dated November 26, 1917,-tested by all the requirements of the law expressed in the Pennsylvania decisions, constitutes on its face a valid contract of bailment for the leasing or hiring of the machinery claimed. He was also of the opinion that the order, dated September 22, 1917, of the Devon Manor Corporation, signed in its behalf by its president, is, standing alone, a contract of conditional sale.
There is no dispute that that is the proper construction to be put upon those written instruments. The order of…
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