Secor v. Close’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 2 state decisions

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1. ““Some contention is made by counsel for appellants, seemingly rested upon the theory that appellant Gadbaw’s rights have been secured, as he claims them here, by the failure of respondent to file in the office of the county auditor the conditional sale contract, and by Gadbaw becoming a subsequent creditor in good faith of Luther and Mitchell. We are quite unable to see that these facts are of any avail to appellants here. The facts show nothing more than that the sale of the mill to Luther and Mitchell became, in law, an absolute instead of a conditional one, as to subsequent creditors in good faith. But this did not prevent Luther and Mitchell returning the mill to respondent in payment of the balance due upon the purchase price thereof, even though they thereby preferred respondent as a creditor, in the absence of the value of the mill at that time being in excess of the balance due upon the purchase price, or some other element of bad faith or fraud entering into' the transaction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jennings v. Schwartz