In re Pfaeffle

ATWELL, District Judge.

This is a fight for priority between a landlord and creditors, and arises over a Texas statute which announces a lien for land- ■ lords, and a protection for other creditors of the tenant.

It appears that the tenant, bankrupt, is in arrears for rent since December, 1930; that the landlord filed a statutory proof of his rent claim in February, 1933,* and again in October of that same year. The referee declined to allow him any of the claim prior to the time of the first filing, which would date back six months."

The landlord claims that he is entitled,under such filing, to…