In re Galt
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. On February 25, 1902, Frank Galt filed in the district court s, voluntary petition in bankruptcy, and was adjudged a bankrupt February 28th, and thereafter I. L. Weaver was duly appointed his trustee.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. On February 25, 1902, Frank Galt filed in the district court s, voluntary petition in bankruptcy, and was adjudged a bankrupt February 28th, and thereafter I. L. Weaver was duly appointed his trustee. On March 12, 1902, the Mitchell & Lewis Company, Limited, a corporation' of the state of Wisconsin, located at Racine, in that state, filed its petition in the bankruptcy proceedings, representing, that on April 26, 1901, the petitioner appointed Frank Galt, the bankrupt, its agent at Sterling, 111., for…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). The questions., suggested by the record are (i) whether the contract is one of bailment or of conditional sale; (2) whether, if the latter, a trustee in. bankruptcy of the vendee in such sale may retain the property, as. against the vendor, and in right of general creditors; the law of the.state holding conditional sales void as to bona fide purchasers and; attaching or execution creditors.
The law of the state of Illinois with respect to conditional sales;, as expounded by its supreme court, runs counter to the great weight of authority, but has become a rule of…
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- Chickering v. BastressIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
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- State v. LeichamWisconsin Supreme Court · 1877
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