In re Westlund

LOGHREN, District Judge.

In this case creditors who were owners by assignment of claims for labor performed for the bankrupt within three months before the date of the commencement of the bankruptcy proceedings — each separate claim so assigned being less than $300 — duly filed and made proof of such claims; and the question certified by the referee for decision is whether such claims, so owned, are debts having priority. The answer to this question depends upon the proper construction of that clause of section 64b of the bankruptcy act which gives priority to “wages due to workmen, clerks or…