Court Opinion

ID: 6833491
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 19:59:09.894203+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:04:37.743851
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SCHOONMAKER, District Judge.
The Middleby Oven Company has fled a petition asking for an order upon the receiver in this case to pay to the petitioner $364.38, the balance alleged to be due the petitioner on the purchase price of an oven sold to bankrupt on a conditional sale contract dated October 9, 1923. The personal property of the bankrupt, including the oven,- was sold by the receiver at public auction for a lump sum, and the receiver now has in his hands the proceeds of this sale. There is nothing to indicate the portion of the purchase price that could be allotted to this oven.
The receiver has answered this petition, denying the right of the petitioner to the relief prayed for. The question involved is: Does the conditional sales contract set out in the petition come within the provisions of the Pennsylvania Act of May 1, 1923 (P. L. 117; Pa. St. Supp. 1924, §§ 19734a1~-19734a13) ? Turning to that act, we find that it is entitled: “An act concerning conditional sales of chattels attached or to be attached to realty, and regulating the recording and effect thereof; and providing remedies, and penalties.”
There are no facts alleged in this petition to bring this case within' the act. There is no allegation and there is no proof that this oven was attached or was to be attached to the realty, and, unless the sale comes within the precise terms of the Pennsylvania act/the conditional sale was void as against the creditors of the bankrupt under the Pennsylvania law, and therefore void as against the bankrupt’s trustee, under section 47a2 of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended in 1910 (Comp. St. § 9631). In re Hartdagen (D. C.) 189 F. 546.
We had almost precisely the same situation in this court at No. 11794, in Bankruptcy, In re Dennis Banos, Bankrupt, 8 F.(2d) 95, involving a soda water fountain, and we there held that the act did not apply.
We therefore can but conclude in the instant ease that the petitioner is but a general creditor, and not entitled to the relief prayed for. His petition for special relief must be denied, but without prejudice to his rights to claim as a general creditor.
An order may be entered accordingly.