In re Luber
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of Ethel Luber and Isaac Kruger, individually and trading as the Diamond Skirt Company, bankrupts. On certificate for review of an order denying priority to the claim of an attorney for the bankrupts.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, District Judge.
The petitioner is, and was prior to the bankruptcy proceedings, attorney for the bankrupt. He filed a claim for $313.62, claimed to be due for costs paid and fees for services rendered, prior to bankruptcy, in connection with the adjustment of the claim of the bankrupts against fire insurance companies for loss sustained by the destruction of their stock and fixtures by fire. The petitioner filed a petition for leave to amend his proof of claim as a general creditor to a claim for priority.
The referee disallowed the claim upon the ground that there is nothing in the…
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