In re Smith

HOLMES, District Judge.

The bankrupt was a trader engaged in the retail furniture business in Brookhaven, Miss., under the name of J. M. Smith Furniture Company. At the date of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, it had for sale in its place of business certain furniture and other articles of merchandise upon which a lien is claimed to have existed for the purchase money in favor of the seller under a Louisiana statute, the contract of sale and delivery thereunder admittedly having taken place in that state. The seller, the New Orleans Furniture Manufacturing Company, a Louisiana…