Malmo v. Washington Rendering & Fertilizing Co.

Citations

• 79 Wash. 534
• 140 P. 569
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1221

Syllabus

<p>Sales — Conditional Sales — Filing—Residence oe Corporations. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 3670, requiring conditional sales contracts to be filed in the office of the auditor of the county wherein the vendee resides, a record in the county where the property is situated is not a compliance with the statute, where the vendee was a corporation having its principal place of business in another county.</p> <p>Sales — Conditional Sai.es — Filing — “Creditors”—Necessity oe Liens. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 3670, providing that conditional sales contracts, where the property is placed in the possession of the vendee, shall be absolute as to subsequent creditors in good faith, unless the contract is filed, means those creditors only who have acquired some form of lien on the property; hence does not include a receiver representing general, unsecured creditors, who had extended credit to the insolvent without knowledge of the delivery of the property to the insolvent.</p>