Snowdon

[1] The appeal in this case is from the judgment of the District Court confirming an order made by the referee in bankruptcy rejecting and expunging a claim made by the appellant against the bankrupts. The appellant is a corporation of the state of Michigan, and the bankrupts were at the time of their adjudication in bankruptcy doing business in the city of Seattle, state of Washington, having a warehouse for the storage of goods, and at a separate and distinct place in the same city a salesroom in and from which they sold goods. The agreed statement of the respective parties shows that, while the bankrupts were so carrying on their business, the appellant shipped them certain goods and merchandise of the aggregate value of about $5,000 under and pursuant to this written agreement:

It was further stipulated by the parties that Berry Bros, paid the freight on the goods, the cartage thereon from the cars to the ware.house of Graves & La Belle; that the goods were thereupon placed in the said warehouse, in which were also goods, wares, and merchandise belonging to the said Graves &.La Belle, and that Berry Bros., also paid the insurance and stqrage on the goods so shipped by them…