Cobb

This matter is brought to this court upon a petition for a revision and review of an order of the District Court for Alaska, reversing a decision of the referee in bankruptcy, and remanding the matter for further proceedings.

The Craig Lumber Company was adjudged a bankrupt. The MacDonald-Wiest Logging Company, a Washington corporation, filed a claim for $27,871.50 and interest against the estate of the bankrupt. The trustee objected, and contended that the claim was not provable in bankruptcy, for the reason that the claim was for sums alleged to be due under a contract between the claimant and the bankrupt made and to be performed in Alaska, and that at the time of the making of the contract, and thereafter, the claimant had not complied with the laws of Alaska governing foreign corporations doing business in Alaska, and that the contract made the basis of the claim was void. The referee held that the claim was not provable in bankruptcy, and disallowed the claim; but the District Court, upon a petition for review, reversed the decision of the referee and remanded the matter. The respondent moved this court for the dismissal of the petition for revision for lack of…