In the Matter of Armstrong Glass Company, Inc., Bankrupt. Gladstone H. White, Trustee, Etc. v. Edwin M. Luedeka

McCREE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the trustee in "bankruptcy from the district court’s order affirming the order of the referee in bankruptcy determining that appellees’ claims for legal and accounting services rendered before bankruptcy at the request o| an equity receiver and asserted against the estate in a superseding bankruptcy administration had priority as “expenses of administration” under Section 64(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C. § 104(a)(1). We must decide whether the district court exceeded its authority in appointing the equity receiver; whether the bankruptcy…