Court Opinion

ID: 8782956
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 13:24:56.006055+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:02:55.703149
License: Public Domain

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
No question of trade fixtures is involved in this dispute. By the covenants in the lease, the lessor and the lessee themselves determined who was to own the property now in controversy. Of special importance is the covenant that:
“All improvements or additions made by the lessee shall not be detached from the property, but shall remain Cor the benefit of the lessor.”
The machinery to which the receiver’s claim was finally restricted, namely, twin mixers, four freezers, washer and sterilizer, eleven motors, shafting and belting, brine pump, and german silver connections of mixers, is all embraced by this covenant, and therefore did not -pass to the receiver, or to his successor, the bankrupt’s trustee. The decision in Montello Brick Co. v. Trexler, 167 Fed. 482, 93 C. C. A. 118, is not in point. The pending controversy is ruled by Isman v. Hanscom, 217 Pa. 137, 66 Atl. 329.
The report of the referee is affirmed, and it is now adjudged that the machinery hereinbefore specified does not belong to the receiver, or to the trustee, but to the landlord, or to his successor or successors in title.