Lott v. Salsbury
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
On Petition to Superintend and Revise, in Matter of Law, Proceedings of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, in Bankruptcy; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. In the matter of A. L. Hyman, bankrupt.
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On Petition to Superintend and Revise, in Matter of Law, Proceedings of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, in Bankruptcy; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. In the matter of A. L. Hyman, bankrupt. The lien of M. Salsbury, as landlord, was by order of the District Court (226 Fed. 982) given priority over the claims of Bernice Lott and others, as clerks of the bankrupt, and such claimants petition to superintend and revise the order in matter of law.
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, District Judge.
This case comes here on a petition to superintend and revise in matter of law an order of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. The order complained of is dated December 18, 1915, in the matter of A. L. Hyman, bankrupt, and decides that the landlord of the bankrupt had a lien for his, rent upon goods on his premises and that out of the proceeds of such' goods the landlord is entitled to payment before clerks’ wages for the three months immediately preceding bankruptcy.
[1,2] The petition raised several questions of fact. This…
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