In re McKinley’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““What does this ambiguous and duplicitous language mean ? Does it clearly and explicitly negate anything said in Section 443.460 ? Was the duplicative use of the phrase ‘personal property’ in error, or was the last use of the phrase in the clause reading: ‘as well as all personal property’, intended to mean that a chattel mortgage, made by a resident of Jackson County, might be filed in the branch office of the Recorder at Kansas City regardless of where, in the county, the mortgaged property is ‘situated’ ? I believe that this is what it means, and must be construed to mean. Such construction renders that statute consistent with its purpose of establishing a Recorder’s branch office in Kansas City for the filing or recording convenience of the residents of Kansas City, and also consistent with the general statute known as Section 443.460.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bostian v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corporation

2. ““It shall be the duty of the county court to furnish a suitable room in which said office [the Kansas City • branch office of the recorder] shall be kept, and to furnish all fuel, books, stationery, etc., used in and about said office, and all deeds or instruments affecting real and personal property in said range thirty-three shall be recorded in a well-bound book, to be kept in said office in Kansas City; and it shall be the duty of the recorder without fee or reward, to make out, at least once in each week, an abstract of deeds and other ■ instruments so recorded and file the same in the office at Independence which shall be open to the inspection of all persons and shall make out a like abstract of all instruments affecting real estate recorded at Independence, and file the same in the office at Kansas City.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bostian v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corporation

3. ““No mortgage or deed of trust of personal property hereafter made shall be valid against any other per- . son than the parties thereto * * * unless the mortgage or deed of trust, or a true copy thereof, shall he"filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county where the mortgagor or grantor executing the same, resides, * * * and such mortgage or deed of trust, or copy thereof, may be so filed, although not acknowledged, and shall be as valid as . though the instrument were fully spread upon the records of thé county, * * * in the office of the recorder of deeds; and * * * when the same, or a copy thereof, shall have been filed, as above provided, shall thenceforth be notice of the contents thereof to all the world.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bostian v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corporation