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BEST TRAILER SALES, INC. v. SMITH

No. 25280.

395 F.2d 97 (1968)

BEST TRAILER SALES, INC., Appellant, v. William C. SMITH, Trustee in Bankruptcy for Charles Ernest Douglas, Bankrupt, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 24, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. F. Stokes, III, Mobile, Ala., for appellant.

Thomas A. Johnston, III, Irvin J. Langford, Mobile, Ala., for appellee; Howell, Johnston, Langford & Finkbohner, Mobile, Ala., of counsel.

Before TUTTLE and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges, and BREWSTER, District Judge.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court affirming the dismissal of a claim filed by Best Trailer Sales, Inc., claiming to be the owner of a house trailer involved in the bankruptcy of Charles Ernest Douglas.

The question presented to the referee, and now before us, is whether a contract by which Douglas acquired the trailer was a recordable instrument under the statutes of Alabama, Section 131, Title 47 of the Code...

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