HEFFRON v. BANK OF AMERICA NAT. TRUST & SAVINGS ASS'N

No. 9454.

113 F.2d 239 (1940)

HEFFRON v. BANK OF AMERICA NAT. TRUST & SAVINGS ASS'N et al. In re WILLIAMS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

June 29, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell B. Seymour, of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Louis Ferrari, of San Francisco, Cal., and Edmund Nelson, G. L. Berrey, and Grainger & Hunt, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee Bank of America Nat. Trust & Savings Ass'n.

William R. Wallace, Jr., of San Francisco, Cal., Zach Lamar Cobb of Los Angeles, Cal., and George M. Burditt, of Chicago, Ill. (Williamson & Wallace, of San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for appellee Lawrence Warehouse Co.

Before DENMAN, MATHEWS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


HEALY, Circuit Judge.

The appeal presents, among others of lesser difficulty, the question whether noncompliance with the provisions of the bulk sales law, Calif.Civil Code § 3440, invalidates a lien on the goods of a merchant in favor of the holder of receipts issued for the goods by a field warehouseman.

Fred Williams was adjudged bankrupt on his voluntary petition on September 25, 1937. The Bank of America, which we shall refer to as appellee, filed...

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