Kavanas v. Mead

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in bankruptcy which denied priority to certain wage claims of miners in the employ of the bankrupt, Warner Coal Corporation, and allowed them merely as general claims. The governing statute, Section 64, sub. a(2) of the Chandler Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 104, sub. a(2), provides: “The debts to have priority, in advance of payment of dividends to creditors, and to be paid in full out of bankrupt estates, and the order of payment, shall be * * * (2) wages, not to exceed $600 to each claimant, which have been earned within three months before the…