Brown v. Hobart Manufacturing Co.

MEMORANDUM

By JONES, J.

These are petitions for review of the Referee in Bankruptcy’s order holding liens of the petitioners invalid as against the' Trustee.

One petitioner holds a chattel mortgage on property in the bankrupt’s possession and the other has a conditional *544sales contract by which it retained title to the chattels. Both instruments, however, are declared invalid for the same reason and, therefore, can for purposes of this review be treated as one.

Bankrupt operated a meat department as a tenant of a partnership, the Food Center Super Market. The Referee found that bankrupt was…