IN RE EAST

No. 172.

17 F.2d 585 (1927)

In re EAST.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

February 7, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. O'Connell and Carroll & O'Connell, all of Rochester, N. Y., for appellant.

Frederick J. Mix, of Rochester, N. Y., for appellee.

Before HOUGH, MANTON, and HAND, Circuit Judges.


HAND, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).

This case involves the meaning of New York statutes, and, as the highest court of that state has not spoken, we are forced to our own interpretation. Section 235 of the Lien Law (Consol. Laws, c. 33) enacts that a chattel mortgage shall be invalid "after the expiration of the first or any succeeding term of one year, reckoning from the time of the first filing, unless...

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