In re Copping's Estate

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

This is a petition to review the finding of the referee denying the claim of the landlord that the statutory lien for rent protects him, not only in the payment of the moneys stipulated in the lease as rent eo nomine, but the taxes and insurance premiums against the property which the lessee had also agreed to pay.

The point is not free from doubt; in fact, is left by the authorities in great confusion, with the weight of authority perhaps preponderating in favor of the referee’s holding.

In view of the fact, however, that the holdings denying that tax and insurance…