In re Berkeley Press, Inc.

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

The trustee in bankruptcy of Berkeley Press, Inc., has appealed from two separate orders of the District Court for the District of New Jersey in the bankruptcy proceeding. In the appeal at No. 7958, the trustee contends that the district court erred in upholding the validity of a chattel mortgage of which the bankrupt was mortgagor and Abe Schloss, mortgagee. His contention is that the affidavit attached thereto was insufficient. The district court, for reasons fully and satisfactorily set forth in the opinion of Judge Smith, 42 F. Supp. 927, found that there was no fraud…