Wright v. Chase Nat. Bank of City of New York

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

On December 23, 1931, the Richmond Cedar Works, a Virginia manufacturing corporation, was placed in the hands of receivers by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and shortly thereafter the case was referred to a special master for a report, among other matters, of debts and claims, with their relative rights, liens and priorities.

T. J. Wright, Jr., the appellant, filet 1 his claim to a preferential-lien for salar), due and unpaid at the date of the receivership, in the sum of $4,987.55.

The master, in his report, allowed the claim as…