Malmo v. Washington Rendering & Fertilizing Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Smith, J., entered September 15, 1913, upon findings in favor of a receiver, upon a trial to the court, in an action on contract.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, J.
The question here submitted is whether or not an unrecorded conditional sale contract is good as against a receiver representing subsequent general creditors. Our statute, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 3670 (P. C. 349 § 35), provides that contracts of this character, where the property is placed in the possession of the vendee, shall be absolute as to subse*535quent creditors in good faith, unless, within ten days after taking possession, a memorandum of the sale be filed in the auditor’s office of the county where the vendee resides. The vendee in this instance was a corporation having its principal place…
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