In re United Cigar Stores Co.

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant is the assignee of a claim by a landlord who owned premises in Trenton, N. J., which were leased to the debtor for a term of twenty years beginning April 1, 1926. The debtor occupied no part of the leased premises itself, but sublet them as of right it might under the lease. On August 29, 1932, the debtor filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy and was then adjudicated a bankrupt. At that time its rent had been paid in full. Its duly qualified trustee found the lease burdensome and rejected it, pursuant to an order obtained for that purpose, on November 11,…