In re Highfield

ARCHBALD, District Judge.

The bankrupt’s goods were sold by the receiver for $1,700, but there have been numerous expenditures which bring it down to less than $1,000. There was due to the landlord at the time the bankruptcy proceedings were instituted, for rent of the premises, the sum of $1,750, which has been reduced to $1,535 *925by the proceeds of certain other goods which were appraised and left on the premises upon some sort of an understanding that the bankrupt was going to take them for his exemption, but which were dis-trained and sold by the landlord, whereupon the bankrupt concluded…