In re Cramond
District Court, N.D. New York
Review of the decision of referee in bankruptcy adjudging that the costs and expenses of the proceedings in bankruptcy, including commissions of referee and trustee, and claims for labor performed within three months of the adjudication, not exceeding .8300 to each laborer, be paid from the amount received by the trustee in bankruptcy on a street paving contract between William J. Cramond, now Ihc bankrupt, and the city of Rome, N. Y., which money was not actually due and…
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Review of the decision of referee in bankruptcy adjudging that the costs and expenses of the proceedings in bankruptcy, including commissions of referee and trustee, and claims for labor performed within three months of the adjudication, not exceeding .8300 to each laborer, be paid from the amount received by the trustee in bankruptcy on a street paving contract between William J. Cramond, now Ihc bankrupt, and the city of Rome, N. Y., which money was not actually due and payable at the date of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, before payment therefrom to certain assignees of the…
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
On the 26th day of August, 1904, the now bankrupt, William J. Cramond, then solvent, entered into a written contract with the city of Rome to pave, with brick, East Dominick street in said city from First street to the entrance to the Locomotive Works. Pie was to furnish all the material and perform all the labor and payment of the contract price, $26,009, was to be made 90 days after the completion and acceptance of the work. The contract also contained this provision:
“After the acceptance of all or any portion of the work by the common council, within ninety days…
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