Wilson v. Brock
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The appeal in this case is from an order of the District Court allowing tlic claim of appellees as a preferred claim against the bankrupt’s estate, for the sum of seven hundred thirty-seven dollars and seventy-four cents back rent, and ordering that the trustee be directed to pay it as such preferred claim, out of the moneys in his hands.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The appeal in this case is from an order of the District Court allowing tlic claim of appellees as a preferred claim against the bankrupt’s estate, for the sum of seven hundred thirty-seven dollars and seventy-four cents back rent, and ordering that the trustee be directed to pay it as such preferred claim, out of the moneys in his hands. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
GROSS CUP, Circuit Judge.
The claim of appellees as allowed, accrued within four months prior to the filing of the petition against appellees, upon which appellants were subsequently adjudicated involuntary bankrupts. The claim was filed for back rent due from the bankrupts to the appellees under a lease containing this provision:
■It Is Expressly Agreed between tbe parties herein, that if default be made in the payment of the rent above reserved or any part thereof, or in any of the covenants and agreements herein contained, to be kept by the párty of the second part, it shall be lawful for…
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