IN RE KNAPP

No. 869, Docket 78-5006.

575 F.2d 341 (1978)

In re Douglas G. KNAPP and Gloria J. Knapp, Bankrupt. RED CARPET HOMES OF JOHNSTOWN, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephen GERLING, Trustee in Bankruptcy, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided from the bench April 20, 1978.

Opinion filed May 4, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen D. Gerling, New Hartford, N.Y., for defendant-appellant.

William Pozefsky, Gloversville, N.Y. (Pozefsky, Tocci & Pozefsky, Gloversville, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee Red Carpet Homes of Johnstown, Inc.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

Article Nine of the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.), responding to the myriad of existing security devices, established a comprehensive statutory scheme for the creation and regulation of security interests. Yet, despite this simplification and clarification of the law, the answers to relatively straightforward questions remain clouded by uncertainty. This case presents one such issue—the proper place to file a document perfecting...

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