In re L. W. Birmingham & Son Co.

ROSS, District Judge.

In the course of the administration of the estate of L. W. Birmingham & Son Company, who had been duly adjudicated bankrupt, there was filed the claim of L. W. Birmingham, Jr., for $450, alleged to he due for services rendered by the claimant to the company within throe months preceding the filing of the petition. Upon a hearing of the matter the referee disallowed the claim as a prior debt against the estate, but did allow it as a genera] debt. Exception was made to the action of the referee, petition for review was presented, and the facts duly certified.

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