In re Morris
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. On certificate from referee, sur exceptions to trustee’s account.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.
On a sale of the bankrupt’s effects by the trustee some .$880.50 was realized, out of an appraised value of $2,015.15. This was little enough; but it is now proposed, in *592addition, to take it all for the costs. There seems to be no remedy against this, so far as general creditors are concerned; but the landlord has interposed a claim for one month’s rent of the premises where the goods were lodged at the time of bankruptcy, $135, which I do not see how it is possible to pass by. Rent, under such circumstances, is a preferred claim, as it has been many times decided.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n v. HarrisonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1907
- Longstreth v. PennockSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- In re Prince & WalterDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1904
- Wilson v. Pennsylvania Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1902
- In re HooverDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1902
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- In re West Side Paper Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1908
- Jones v. FordCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1918
- In re HoopertDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1931