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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