Legal Opinion

Pisculli v. Bellanca Aicraft Corp.

Court of Chancery of Delaware

Decided December 6, 1929Published

1Opinion of the Court

The Chancellor.

Assuming the conditional sales agreement of May 22nd to be a valid one (which the complainant questions), yet, the complainant contends, it must be treated as subordinate to his claim. This contention is based on two alternative views. The first is that his chattel mortgage was a valid one and lawfully recorded under the laws of New York, and that itctherefore takes precedence, being prior in point of time, over the subsequent conditional sales agreement, the vendor in which is chargeable with notice of a legal lien by virtue of the mortgage’s recordation. But if this be not…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Fosdick v. SchallSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
  2. McGourkey v. Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1892
  3. Galveston Railroad v. CowdreySupreme Court of the United States · 1871
  4. Stewart v. PlattSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
  5. Bear Lake & River Water Works & Irrigation Co. v. GarlandSupreme Court of the United States · 1896

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