IN RE SEXTON

Bankruptcy No. 3-79-00834, Adv. No. 3-81-0649.

18 B.R. 730 (1981)

In re Joe Alvin SEXTON, Novena J. Sexton, Debtors. FRUEHAUF CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. Joe Alvin SEXTON, Novena J. Sexton, Aztex Energy Company, and Leon Steinberg, Trustee, Defendants.

United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Tennessee.

December 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.A. Ridge, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiff.

W. Morris Kizer and Arthur G. Seymour, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant, Aztex Energy Co.

Leon Steinberg, Trustee, pro se.


MEMORANDUM

CLIVE W. BARE, Bankruptcy Judge.

The issue in this adversary proceeding is whether under Tennessee law a security interest in a semitrailer is perfected by the notation of the lien upon the title certificate or by the filing of a financing statement with the Tennessee Secretary of State.

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On November 2, 1978, Fruehauf Corporation sold Joe Alvin Sexton a Fruehauf 9200 gallon gasoline tanker trailer. Sexton granted Fruehauf a...

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