Miller v. McCray Refrigerator Co.

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The important question for decision in this case is whether the description of a refrigerator in a conditional sale contract was so defective as to prevent the record of the contract from operating as constructive notice under the laws of Minnesota.

In the summer of 1941, William Joseph Lutgen, a retail grocer of Little Falls, Minnesota, doing business as the Food Mart —also known as Lutgen’s Food Mart,— purchased a refrigerator from the appellee, McCray Refrigerator Company, under a conditional sale contract. The contract provided that the title should remain in the…