Black & White Cattle Co. v. Shamrock Farms Co. (In re Black & White Cattle Co.)

VOLINN, Bankruptcy Judge.

A California statute, Cal.Civ.Code § 2980.5, provides, in pertinent part, that a contract for the feeding of dairy cattle must be recorded within 10 days after execution with the county recorder where the cattle are then located and also where the feedlot operator resides. Failing such rec-ordation, after possession of the cattle by the feedlot operator, reservation of title or property in the cattle by their owner is void as to any good faith purchaser, encum-brancer, attaching, or levying creditor.

The issue before us is whether the bankruptcy estate of a feedlot…