In re Morris

RULING ON PETITION FOR REVIEW

ROTH, District Judge.

This is a petition for review of the decision of the Referee in Bankruptcy in the above entitled matter concluding, as a matter of law, that a payroll deduction authorization, or wage assignment, is a lien “obtained by attachment, judgment, levy or other legal or equitable process or proceeding” within the purview of § 67a(l) of the Bankruptcy Act, and that the creditor, appellant herein, thus received a preference which he was ordered to turn over. The Referee cited and adopted the opinion by Referee Joseph V. Costa of the Eastern District of…