Flint Wagon Works v. Buttles

Citations

• 153 F. 932
• 1907 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 312

Syllabus

<p>Bankruptcy — Conditional Sales — Validity.</p> <p>Where conditions reserving title in the seller, printed on the hack of contracts for the sale of wagons to a bankrupt, which the seller knew were to be resold in the course of the bankrupt’s business, were not called to his attention at the time the contracts were made, and the bankrupt testified that he had no knowledge of such printed conditions until his attention was called thereto by his trustee in bankruptcy, the contracts never having been recorded, the title to the wagons passed to the trustee in bankruptcy as against the seller; such conditional provisions being fraudulent and invalid as against the bankrupt’s creditors.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 6, Bankruptcy, § 199.]</p>