In re Bassett

GIBSON, District Judge.

The present matter has come before us upon exception of the trustee to an order of the referee disallowing a claim of the trustee for $2,000 for clerical aid, expenses, etc., set forth in the latter’s account. The facts upon which the claim is based, as they appear upon argument, were substantially as follows:

The South Side Trust Company, now the Pennsylvania Trust Company, of Pittsburgh, had been elected trustee of the bankrupt estate some four or five years prior to the filing of the account. Practically no assets of the estate were in sight at that time, but the…