In re Burns

(orally). The weight of authority in favor of the right of the landlord to a lien for his rent is in my judgment simply overwhelming. I am not able to perceive the force or conclusiveness of the contention of counsel for the trustee, who insists upon his alleged right to recover the property to which the lien attaches, for the purpose of appropriating it to the general creditors. The decided! cases from courts of the highest rank are based upon the strong and settled policy, not only of many of the states, but of all the governments from which we take our law of real property, to uphold the…