Bauer v. Wilkes-Barre Light Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaefer,

The questions raised by these two appeals are (1) whether state taxes due by an insolvent corporation are payable out of the funds raised on a receiver’s sale of its property before the receiver’s commissions and the fees of his counsel; (2) whether receivers’ certificates, issued by receivers appointed by the United States District Court in a bankruptcy proceeding, for a corporation over which that court subsequently determined it had no jurisdiction, because it was a public service company, are preferred in distribution over the receiver’s compensation and the…