Berry v. Austin

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

■ The. question for decision is whether trust deeds given to secure loans in Tennessee while the grantors were solvent but recorded after insolvency and within four months of the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, evidence secured claims against the bankrupts’ estate. The referee held they did not, but the District Court reversed. The question requires consideration of the Tennessee Registration Statute, and the effect of an amendment to section 60a, of the Bankruptcy Act by the Act of May 27, 1926, 11 U.S.C. § 96(a), 11 U.S.C.A. § 96(a).

On July 15, 1930, and April 16,…