Smith v. Goodman

The appellee is assignee in insolvency of the C. J. L. Myer & Sons Co., a corporation, administering its assets under the direction of the County Court. The appelJant was the landlord—if a lady may be a lord—of the corporation, and had been paid all the rent that accrued under the lease during the period that the appellee occupied the premises. By her petition to the County Court she asked that court to award to her, as a preferred claim, over the claims of the general creditors, the residue of the rent that accrued under the lease, upon the ground that the appellee, by his conduct, elected…