In re Hoover

BUFFINGTON, District Judge.

In this case $85, the rent of Hoover, the tenant, was in arrear, and his landlord lawfully distrained for that sum. Under the statutes and decisions of Pennsylvania he *137thereby acquired a lien to that amount upon all the personal property on the premises, for by lease the tenant had lawfully waived the benefit of the exemption law of the state. Pending a sale of the distrained goods, Hoover filed a petition in bankruptcy, and therein claimed as his statutory exemption an automobile then held by the bailiff under the distress warrant. Thereafter the goods were taken…