In re Brown Co.

PETERS, District Judge.

In each of these three petitions there is raised a question as to the right of a conditional vendor to repossess certain machinery or equipment installed in the mills of the Brown Company prior to the filing of the petition for reorganization.

Admittedly the laws of New Hampshire are applicable to the contracts of sale and rights thereunder.

There is no particular dispute about the facts. The Brown Company is a Maine corporation, organized in 1888, and located at Portland, Me., according to the certificate of incorporation, and having its principal offices at Portland. In…