In re Gay
District Court, D. Massachusetts
• In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of E. H. Gay and others. On petition to review a referee’s order denying priority to the claim of George E. Stetson.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, District Judge.
The bankrupts were engaged in the business of selling securities. They do not appear to have been stockbrokers in the ordinary sense, but to have confined themselves mainly to dealing in bonds of public service corporations. This creditor was employed by them, and it is not disputed that they owed him $437.50 for services rendered after December 1, 1907, when these proceedings were commenced on October 17, 1908. The petitioner’s employment was under a contract in writing dated March 1, 1907, from which it appears that he was employed as a bond salesman at the rate of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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