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IN RE BROWNSVILLE BREWING CO.

No. 7311.

117 F.2d 463 (1941)

In re BROWNSVILLE BREWING CO. GEORGE J. MEYER MFG. CO. v. SPROUL et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

January 29, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene P. Meyer, of Milwaukee, Wis., and W. Brown Higbee, of Uniontown, Pa., for appellant.

Solis Horwitz, of Pittsburgh, Pa., Shelby, Ray & Coldren, of Uniontown, Pa., and Lewis M. Alpern, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Robert C. Sproul, Jr., trustee-appellee.

Dean D. Sturgis, of Uniontown, Pa., and M. J. Laponsky, of Brownsville, Pa., for appellee Nat. Deposit Bank of Brownsville.

Before BIGGS, MARIS and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

Appellant here is contending for a liberal construction of one of the Pennsylvania Recording Acts. The argument is, we think, inappropriate. That type of statute is for protection, not for punishment. Its interpretation should be strong to help its beneficiaries and not, as in the criminal law, tempered with mercy toward those it strikes down. This is particularly so in a State whose "abhorrence of the secret lien" did not even admit of the palliative...

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