In re Hartley

HEAVER, District Judge.

The Warren Company filed with the referee a claim alleging that the bankrupt was indebted to it in the sum of $796, with interest, balance of purchase price of a certain counter, title to which was retained in said company as seller by a duly recorded contract, and praying that the property be returned to the seller. The referee held the alleged conditional sale contract valid as against the trustee, allowed the claim as one entitled to priority of payment, and ordered that the property be returned to the creditor, unless upon sale it realized a sum sufficient to pay…