KNAAK v. SCHMIDT


256 Wis. 463 (1950)

KNAAK and others, Appellants, vs. SCHMIDT, Receiver, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

March 7, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erwin Esser Nemmers of Milwaukee, for the appellants.

For the respondent there was a brief by Kenney & Hays, attorneys, and John F. Cook of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Byron J. Hays.


BROADFOOT, J.

The statute under which the claimants contend they are entitled to priority reads as follows:

"128.17 Order of distribution. (1) The order of distribution out of the debtor's estate shall be as follows: . . .

"(c) Wages due to workmen, clerks, traveling or city salesmen, or servants, which have been earned within three months before the date of the commencement of the proceedings not to exceed six hundred dollars to each claimant...

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