Walker v. First Nat. Bank

The sole question in this case is whether, in an insolvent estate, the amount due to a landlord for the rent of a store building occupied by the decedent prior to his death is to be preferred, in the distribution of the estate, over claims for the expenses of the last sickness, for the funeral and for the administration, the administrator having taken over the goods of the decedent in the store building and having sold them all under order of the court.

Appellant, the landlord, relies upon section 2175, Code 1930, which provides that the goods and chattels in rented premises shall not be taken…