Lyders

Reversal is sought of an order of the trial court denying a petition to review an order of the referee in bankruptcy allowing claims of one Petersen and others for $20,000 with interest as a general claim. The basis of the claim is a judgment in five cases consolidated in the state court of California in which appellant had made defense, as is here offered as objections, to allowance of the claim. Concisely stated, it is claimed that in each of the cases he was employed by one of the seventeen “Danish Nationals” of the “Debtor” as their attorney at law to represent them in connection with their interests in estates of deceased persons in California, and elsewhere in the United States, and that the Kingdom of Denmark was indebted to appellant in sums equivalent to the face of the judgment; that payment has been demanded of the seventeen Danish nationals but has been refused; that' he was employed by the Kingdom of Denmark to prosecute on behalf of citizens of Den *10 mark; that he accepted such employment, and prosecuted claims and in August, 1928, accounted to the Consul of Denmark at San Francisco for all funds received, and that such Consul agreed to apply the funds to satisfy…