MATTER OF PACIFIC FAR EAST LINE, INC.

No. 82-4039.

713 F.2d 476 (1983)

In the Matter of PACIFIC FAR EAST LINE, INC., a Delaware corporation, Debtor. Frederick S. WYLE, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Pacific Far East Line, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PACIFIC MARITIME ASSOCIATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jan T. Chilton, Severson, Werson, Berke & Melchior, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Charles C. Ivie, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before WISDOM, SCHROEDER, and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges.


SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to interpret section 64(a)(1) of the old Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C. § 104(a)(1) (1976) (repealed 1978) which governed the priority of claims.1 The narrow question on appeal is whether the district court erred in upholding the determination of the bankruptcy court that all of a $3,108,000 payment by the trustee in bankruptcy, Frederick S. Wyle, to Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) for...

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