Walker v. Barton

¶1On the statement of the question in reference to the claim made by Noah Walker for rent, I am of the opinion that the said claim of the lessor is a preferred claim. For the rent due at the time of the filing of the petition of Rose, Lyon & Co. to be declared bankrupts, Noah Walker had a lien which he could have enforced by distress, and under the facts stated in the argument there was no waiver of the same. As to that part of the rent which is for the occupation of the store, after the date of the filing of Rose, Lyon & Co.’s petition, that is to be paid as a part of the expenses of the custody, etc., of the bankrupts’ estate, and comes within the first-class classification of claims entitled to the priority, by the provisions of the twenty-eighth section of the bankrupt act. I should suppose the first part of the rent would come under the provisions of the act in reference to the liquidation of liens, etc., as provided for by the fourteenth and twentieth sections of the act.