Schmid v. Baum's Home of Flowers, Inc.

The appeal of Schmid, trustee, and H. T. Kern, receiver, involves a contest with regard to rent of real estate of a bankrupt, accruing after the date of bankruptcy. Baum’s Home of Flowers, the tenant, leased a portion of a business house in Knoxville from Morris Bart-, in February, 1925, the contract being evidenced by a written lease providing for a term of fifteen years, beginning July 1, 1925, with monthly rent payable on the first day of each month, in advance. At the date of th* lease Bart was the owner of the building, subject only to an express vendor’s lien for unpaid purchase money.…