Case ID: f2d_68/html/0369-01.html
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Author: {"author": "BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LAMSON CO., Inc., v. BLAND.
    No. 5227.
    Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    Dec. 29, 1933.
    Townsend & Kindleberger, of New York City (E. Crosby Kindleberger, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.
    Ellis Brodstein, of Reading, Pa., for ap-pellee.
    Before BUFFINGTON, WOOLLEY, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
   BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

As pointed out by the trial judge, this case turns on three simple propositions: First, that on the adjudication of the bankrupt, the rights of the trustee were those of an execution creditor; second, the Lamson conveyor system in the bankrupt’s store was a trade fixture and, therefore, personal property; third, while that system was placed in the store on a conditional sale contract, the failure of the vendor to record the sale contract, as provided by the Pennsylvania statute (Pennsylvania Uniform Conditional Sales Act [1925] May 12, P. L. 603 [69 PS § 361 et seq.J), left the system liable to seizure and sale by an execution creditor and therefore by the trustee in bankruptcy. Such being the ease;, the court rightly denied the reclamation petition of the Lamson Company. We affirm its dc;eroe without prejudice to the right of the claimant to present a money claim as a general creditor.