In re Crawford Wollen Co.
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of the Crawford Wollen Company. On petition of Terhune, Nearing & Co. to revise the referee’s order determining that petitioners were not entitled to priority under a state statute for the amount of their claim,, but permitting them to file their claim for a preference to the amount of $300 and as an unsecured claim for the balance.
1Opinion of the Court
DAYTON, District Judge.
The bankrupt is a corporation, and was engaged in the manufacture of woolen fabrics at Martinsburg, this dis-, trict. The petitioners compose a partnership doing business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The corporation has been adjudged an involuntary bankrupt, and petitioners have sought to file a claim for $7,605.09 as a preferred one, under and by virtue of section 7, c. 75 (section 3848, Hogg’s Code 1913) of the Code of West Virginia, which provides:
“Every workman, laborer, or other person who shall do or perform any work or labor, by virtue of - any contract for any…
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